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labour | gordon brown | crewe | election | tax The third farce
Rob Newman

In amongst all the Labour rows, Tory gloating and Boris fawning, the great unwritten story of the May 1 elections is the pathetic showing of the Liberal Democrats. I've been turning this over in my mind since the results came through. The Lib Dems ...

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rangers | premier league | uefa cup | cup final | football England Tops Fair Play Ta...
EPL Talk

Manchester City may be looking for new management next season, but it may also find itself playing in Europe as well. UEFA has announced today that England have finished in the top spot of this season’s Fair Play rankings. The rankings are b...

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lesbian couples | ivf treatment | lesbians | father figure | bill Tuesday 13th May 2008
ConservativeHome

Seats and candidates: Tory campaign in Crewe emphasises tax and soaring living costs Local government: Slough was one of the few good stories for Labour on 1st May but the new Labour group has self-destructed and handed power back to the Conserv...

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west midlands | sikh visit | parliament ends | midlands sikh | midlands attempted Can we trust Plod?
Christian quoter

BBC says, "West Midlands Police and the Crown Prosecution Service are to apologise for accusing the makers of a Channel 4 documentary of distortion.The broadcaster says the apology and the promise of £100,000 will be made at the High Court on Thursd...

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The Tinbasher Sheet Metal...

Well if the tooting and parping going on outside work and a couple of other street corners was anything to go by on my way home from work you’d be forgiven for thinking that Barack Obama was going to win today’s West Virginia Primary at ...

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boris johnson | mayor boris | henley | hires ex | resign The Livingstone Mayoralty...
ORGANIZED RAGE

In many ways Ken Livingstone was an extremely successful Mayor of London, he was after all elected twice, I have no need to point out his main achievements as he seems to be doing enough on that front without my help. * In all probability his main a...

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crewe | id card | labour | id cards | nantwich Labour plays the race car...
Areopagitica

copied from Kathz's BlogI'm too young to remember the 1964 Smethwick by-election in which the Conservatives are said to have used a notoriously nasty slogan to win. Patrick Gordon-Walker, the defeated Labour man, may also have pandered to racism on ...

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post office | post offices | branches | threatened post | postmasters warns Proposed closure of Belmo...
Alan in Belfast

If you feel strongly (or even mildly) about the proposed closure of the Belmont Post Office on Belmont Church Road/Campbell Parl Avenue, don’t forget that Monday 12 May is the last day to respond to the consultation to lodge your objections and idea...

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jimmy mizen | old | east london | 16 | lee Catch Ups
Baggage Reclaim

1. I'm back at work - already missing the kids. Although after Christmas I'll be the main carer, so perhaps I should enjoy the respite.2. The wedding of tycho_b (Neil Denny of Little Atoms) and sham9 (Kate Waterfield of The Kittiwakes) was a gloriou...

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jacqui smith | home secretary | smith admits | harassment | take drugs Harassed by the Home Secr...
Daithai C

Jacqui SmithYufI was intrigued at the recent announcement by the Home Secretary Jacqui Smith that she wants the Police to harass yobs? The traditional approach was to get evidence and prosecute in open court! Perhaps this important law officer of th...

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dem group | largest group | party ousted | dem's 5 | conservatives' 27 Not very Wise...
The Devil's Kitchen

The News of the World has an exposé of MEPs' scams in general and those of Tom Wise in particular.THE News of the World can name and expose the British politicians milking a fortune from our taxes. For years, we have all suspected the Europea...

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couple weeks | why can't | bit sporadic | spirit bear | exams coming Belly Talk
Mrs. Mogul

I received a $25 Starbucks gift card from someone for Mother's Day. Looks like I'll be going there within the next couple of weeks. Caffeine and pregnancy! Woo hoo!My Mother's Day was nothing special. Regretting as usual that we went to do grocery s...

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northern ireland | rare link | irreversible peace | link form | ask mps 55th Congress of Liberal ...
Liberal England

The BBC reports that members of around 100 Liberal parties from across the world are gathering for the conference in Belfast.And it quotes Alliance leader David Ford:"Getting the chance to host this congress is a massive boost for Belfast. "This i...

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Sci-Fi Heaven.net

Our friends over at VH1 and MTV gave us the heads up on their new “Become Tony Stark For A Weekend Competition”, in promotion of IRON MAN. They’ve produced two promotion videos for the competition, which you can see below. Quite c...

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So contrary to early reports and rejoicing this morning on the unpopular blogs, Guido is still at liberty. Sentenced to a 3 year driving ban, plus 3 month curfew. No excuses, Guido plead guilty.Mrs Fawkes laughed at the news, she has been trying...

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An Australian driver has been fined for putting a seatbelt around a carton of beer instead of a five-year-old passenger.Constable Wayne Burnett told reporters he was "shocked and appalled" to discover the driver's priorities when he pulled a sedan o...

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fixed term | term parliaments | parliaments bill | howarths fixed | david howarths David Howarth’s Fix...
Quaequam Blog!

I’ve been highlighting this as part of my day job but haven’t said anything about it here. Anyway, David Howarth’s Fixed Term Parliaments Bill is being debated in the Commons tomorrow and you need to do something about it. Write ...

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hillary clinton | points ahead | within tories' | tories' grasp | crewe within As last Hillary gets it
Liberal Burblings

As a poll shows Obama seven points ahead of McCain nationally, Hillary's thank you video (below) at last signals that she has realised the game is up: A video sent by Hillary Clinton as a thank you to her supporters has fuelled speculation that she...

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acs national | won indiana | fight carries | carolina clinton | national convention Norwich Tories Cut Crime!
Little's Log

In my second bizarre incident of the week (I may tell you about the first later on), we managed to get caught up in an attempt to defraud Norwich City Council of a car parking fee.I have attended the farewell party for the outgoing Lord Mayor, Cllr ...

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emergency budget | labour principles | class war | labour's founding | nantwich Class War By-Election
Guy Fawkes' blog of parli...

This is from an official Labour leaflet being distributed in the poorer socio-economic areas of Crewe & Nantwich. You can't be wealthy and vote-worthy apparently. Do they realise that Gordon is a multi-millionaire?* Point 4 is real knuckle-d...

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andrew flintoff | new zealand | injury dashes | flintoff test | england's three World’s 100 Best Travel D...
Overseas Property Investm...

A recent survey of popular tourist destinations by travel website specialists Trip Advisor has thrown up a few surprises and may offer some interesting alternatives for those looking at overseas property investment. Using a mixture of hits for popul...

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melt away | safe labour | labour seat | zahid's shah's | topples labour Zahid Shah nearly topples...
Colin Ross News Stories

The Leader of the Labour Group on Wolverhampton Council was a worried man at the count as he saw his once massive majority melt away under the heat on Zahid's Shah's campaign in St. Peter's Ward. It was only at the last box that he realised he had b...

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google helps | friends connect | google friends | social media | web Jonny Rosemont
The Rosemont Loving

1. BBC News - Boom times for virtual playgrounds A look at the popularity of virtual worlds 2. EMarketer - Jumpstarting the Mobile Internet A look at mobile social networking and usage 3. Mashable - Top 10 Social Networking Sites for Women The top s...

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coronation street | viaduct collapsed | corrie history | street history | mrs bucket Coronation Street Monthly...
Coronation Street Blog

The latest monthly Coronation Street update has gone live over at the Union Jack website. You can read it here and the site also has archives to past months' updates too.Not so much read it and weep, more read it and put a wry smile on your face. Go...

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these last | merino tops | plyed | labour’s strong | data privacy… Data Privacy… Not Labour’...
The ThunderDragon

Even if we ignore/excuse the massive amounts of lost data already by this government as institutional failings of the system and processes of the Civil Service rather than government ministers, these last two cannot be explained away like that. Cab...

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better than | why jamaican | jamaican tabloids | go' archery | uk tabloids It does not get better th...
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What a wonderful morning. I got to spend the whole morning talking to three separate classes of year 1 kids (ages 5 & 6) about the Bible. What is more I get paid to do it. Wow! We had a great time. You gotta love being a minister - can anythi...

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face recognition | vending machines | cigarette vending | underage smoking | japanese company “Guess Your Age” Vending ...
Japan Is Doomed

Sometimes, and it is pretty rare, a news headline pops up on my Google page that literally forces me to stop doing everything I’m meant to be getting on with and read it. The crying baby sumos managed to stop me studying Kanji for an hour, as ...

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cherie blair's | being serialised | steal photos | isn’t cool | daily mail A weekend of woe for Brow...
Dizzy Thinks

What a strange doublewhammy weekend of memoirs we have. Yesterday the story was the news that Cherie Blair was publishing her memoirs six months early and having the serialised in the Times. Today we the start of John Prescott's autobiography being ...

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request flexible | flexible working | million parents | pointless legislative | called opening £38.6 billion spent on tr...
t2 business solutions blo...

An article on Training Zone explains how the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) has recently conducted a survey which shows that companies spent £38.6 billion on training last year, a 16% increase from 2005. This all time high figure accounts for an...

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report | taxpayer rip | british taxpayer | salient | crete The Battle Of Crete
Burning our money

PoolsideAs we surmised, our hotel in Crete is full of Eastern Europeans. But what’s this? Far from being behind the bar, these guys are propping it up.Because these aren’t your obliging Polish waitresses like back home: they are Putin’s newly embour...

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