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June 21,
News Round Up 102

ACCORDING to the Daily Star, 27 year old Alisha Caffrey, from Liverpool, has spent £400 on her dog's wedding which included a three-tier wedding cake.

The story says that Squidgy, a bichon frise, and Yorkshire terrier Eddie tied the knot when Alisha Caffrey refused to let them 'live in sin' when they produced pups.

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June 12,
News Round Up 101

CALL the cops, it's a squirrel!!

Amusing story in the Daily Mail that a woman in her 30s, dialled 999 to call police to a pub in Chester claiming she was being pestered by a squirrel.

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June 7,
News Round Up 100

NO, never, surely not...a story in the Daily Star claims that an elephant at the West Midlands Safari Park in Bewdley, Worcs, took a 'selfie' after a visitor dropped his phone.

 Twenty three year old Scott Brierley told the paper that keepers ordered him to stay in his car and keep moving and said they would try to retrieve it for him later.

 

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May 30,
News Round Up 99

News Round Up

by Patrick O'Connor

 

THE maximum speed allowed on British roads is 70 mph but the Daily Telegraph says latest police data reveals that a motorist caught travelling at 149mph on the M25 was the worst offence of the past year

The data also showed that a driver travelled at 96mph on a 30mph road in Gateshead, the largest proportional breach of any speed limit, and that the highest speed recorded on a 50mph road was 119mph on the A414 Stanstead Abbotts, Hertfordshire.

 

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May 23,
News Round Up 98

ACCORDING to the Daily Express, we now prefer to hop into the shower instead of taking a long soak in the bath. A survey by bathroom manufacturer Ideal Standard reveals that almost a quarter of the nation no longer takes a soak in the tub and one person in 10 showers more than once a […]

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May 16,
News Round Up 97

News Round Up

by Patrick O'Connor

 

AS you get older, you need every bit of help to survive...

A story in the Daily Mail reveals that traffic lights could be changed to stay on red for longer to help Britain’s ageing population.

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