Lobbyists
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‘How did your meeting with the lobbyists go?’
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Thursday
Snoopy
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Sacrifices
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‘What’s the problem? We told you when you started that you’d have to make some sacrifices.’
Fireworks
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‘Could you turn the fireworks up? We can still hear The X Factor.’
Letters | 31 October 2013
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Not fair on cops Sir: Nick Cohen (‘PCs gone mad’, 26 October) claims that the police are deliberately attacking the press and fundamental liberties because, in light of the overall reduction in crime, they are now underemployed and ‘many are surplus to requirements’. This is an inventive conspiracy theory by any standards, but lacking any link
Which NHS staff have enjoyed the biggest salary increases?
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What can they do? Saudi women took to the wheel in defiance of laws preventing them from driving. Some recent freedoms Saudi women have gained: — From this year they have been allowed to ride bicycles, although only around parks and recreation facilities and when accompanied by their official male guardian. — From this year
High-speed fail
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A year ago the electoral strategies of the two main parties seemed set. The Conservatives would stand as the party of prudence, claiming to have saved Britain from a Greek-style meltdown through austerity measures which, though painful at the time, had eventually borne fruit in the shape of a private sector-led recovery. Labour, meanwhile, would stand
Portrait of the week | 31 October 2013
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Home A storm passed over England, with plenty of warning. The strongest gust, of 99mph, was recorded at Needles Old Battery, Isle of Wight. Of 570,000 households that lost power, 160,000 were left without it by sunset. About 200 trees fell on railway lines. A crane collapsed on to the roof of the Cabinet Office
Books and Arts – 31 October 2013
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Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson had a six-year-long affair
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Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson had an affair that lasted at least six years, a jury heard today. A letter which revealed the affair was described as part of evidence produced by the prosecution in the trial of the two defendants. The letter had been written from Brooks to Coulson in 2004 and was found
Thursday
Tea
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‘You’ll have to excuse Ken, he gets argumentative when he’s sober.’
Stonehenge
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‘That’s the visitor centre finished. When do we start building the actual monument?’
Relax
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‘I think you’ve turned the clocks a tad too far back, Charles.’
Bouncers
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Surgery
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‘I’d like to have her legs and she’d like to have my breasts.’
Frackers
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‘Next week we’re culling frackers.’
Bathroom
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‘Would you mind if I used your bathroom?’
Hammer
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‘...hammer, chisel, screwdriver, spanner, saw, screws, nuts, bolts...Now all I need is a job.’
Streetview
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Foodbank2
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The economy is definitely picking up. That was just a soup kitchen six months ago.’