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The Budget.
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"Chancellor Jeremy Hunt begins his statement by saying that, since the Conservatives took office in 2010, unemployment has halved, and absolute poverty has gone down."
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A quarter of children starting school are not yet toilet trained.
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According to a local headmaster in greater Manchester, in his school, it's more like three quarters of children who are starting school are not toilet trained, "One in four children starting school are not toilet trained, a report detailing the struggle of post-pandemic teaching has rev...
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Mary Poppins..category changed from U to PG.
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Sixty years after it's release, the powers that be have decided that adults should not let their children watch this classic favourite childrens film, without adult supervision. Reason being a word is used...a word few seem to have heard of, that is now deemed insulting to all.  "Mary Popp...
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Seven-year-old girl who died in Fort Lauderdale sand hole
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A seven-year-old girl who was killed after she and her brother became trapped in a sand hole they were digging at a Florida beach was 'full of love and life,' according to her heartbroken father.Sloan Mattingly was pulled out from the sand after being buried for about 20 minutes after the sand colla...
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The weather here has been as nice as it can be
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Oh though it doesn’t really matter much to me! i‘m in the Canaries. First time. It’s just the perfect climate - never below 17 at night or above 25 in the day.
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Fred's dead, I say, Fred's dead.
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RIP Fred. "Coronation Street legend John Savident has died aged 86.The actor was best known for playing the butcher Fred Elliott in the ITV soap.Savident’s agent confirmed news of his death on Friday (23 February). “We are sad to announce the death of the actor John Savident who died on Wedne...
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Join me as we try to bring the two worlds a little bit closer together
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I’ve had someone coming through for about a week, and I’m sure it’s a message for an older lady on this forum. Would you understand my love I’ve got a lady here who’s showing me a great big old fashioned gramophone. It was her pride and joy she keeps on telling me. I’ve a feeling this lady passed due to som...
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King Charles diagnosed with cancer.
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"The King has been diagnosed with a form of cancer, Buckingham Palace has announced.The Palace confirmed the disease, which is not prostate cancer, was discovered while the King was being treated in hospital for an enlarged prostate.The King has started a schedule of regular treatments, but has b...
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Acid attack in London.
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Police are hunting a suspect who threw an alkaline substance at a mother and her two children, leaving her and one daughter with potentially life-changing injuries.A large manhunt is under way for Abdul Shokoor Ezedi, 35, over the “targeted” attack that led to 12 people in all needing hospita...
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How to troll on a dating site.
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Just found this really funny old thread on here. Shell started it, years ago, it still makes me laugh. -- Edited by Syl on Wednesday 21st of February 2024 12:55:18 PM
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Are you 80-odd?
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Let’s just get this cleared up!
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Historical Figures Shown as Modern-Day People Using AI
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https://travellergazette.com/historical-figures-shown-as-modern-day-people-ai-is/37/
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Welcome to my world
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Won’t you come on in? Miracles I guess can happen now and then Step into my world Leave your cares behind I’ve always loved Jim Reeves 
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Knife waving around
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My 18 yr old grandson was on a train coming home from work, when a muslim jumped up waving a big knife around shouting.  He was overcome by two big men, who got him out the train and subdued him til security got there. Don't bear thinking about if he started attacking people. Bet nothing's don...
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Happy Valentines day.
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Did you get/give a card or a pressie? Or is it all a load of tosh?
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80 Year old father of SEVEN children, including a nine month old baby.
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Is it fair on the children?
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BBC Radio DJ and broadcaster Steve Wright dies aged 69
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How long has the Mail Online been charging folk to read?
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The Mail has never been one of my favourite papers, but they can guarantee to have at least one or two stories to post, controversial, or just chatty, but over the years I have used the paper to start some interesting debates. Now though, you have to pay to carry on reading some of their topics I have no ide...
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Which posters would you like to post alongside?
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Old or new....which posters, in your opinion, would make for an interesting forum?
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Do you have a dentist?
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Apparently, it's getting even harder to get dental treatment on the NHS. The Tories have pledged to plough millions into enabling people to have better access to NHS dentistry. (Liars) They are blaming Covid for the shortage of dentists, forgetting they have been in power for 14 years, and the NHS se...
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Kazakhstan will surgically remove paedophiles' genitals under new draft law
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Yes, or no? Kazakhstan will surgically remove the genitals of the worst offending paedophiles under a new draft law.It follows complaints from MPs that the system of chemical castration - one of the toughest in the world - is not deterring child sex offenders.Elnur Beisenbaev, an MP and executiv...
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Amazing Tech or just more Slavery?
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The human voice can be amazing.
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Should access to Social Media be Banned for under 18's?
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Brianna Ghey's mother is calling for a ban on children's access to social media after it was revealed her daughter's killer watched torture videos on the Dark Web.Her mother, Esther, said she wants smartphones to be made available for under-16s without social media apps.She is also campaigning fo...
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Road Rage.
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The roads have been closed for hours locally after an 'incident'. Turns out, an altercation between the male drivers of two separate vehicles happened, resulting in the death of one, whilst the other fled the scene. It's not sure what the motive was, but road rage is pretty common....and a horrible t...
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Nice people.
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I am convinced there are far more nice people in this world than not. I didn't know that both Paul McCartney and Billy Joel, when in concert, leave the first front two rows seats of the venue free. It's so their own staff can go to the cheaper seats, speak to the real fans, then escort some lucky ones to the...
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Conscription to return?
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https://twitter.com/TheFreds/status/1750231632273920235?cxt=HBwW1sO2xa-ZicowAAAA&cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjcw%3D%3D&refsrc=email
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Why have parents lost control of their children?
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Apart from many not having a clue where their kids are...or if they do know where they are, parents having no idea what they are doing on the internet, I heard a mother on the radio talking about something quite unusual this morning. Her daughter is needing medical intervention after using creams and p...
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Maddog please tell us....
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People are pouring in to Texas to fight at the border. A million people might well turn up? How's it going what's really going on?
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Goodbye Melanie
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45% of children in the N/W are living in poverty/
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" New research from the End Child Poverty Coalition shows that Manchester is the third worst place for child poverty in the country. Astonishingly, 45% of the city's children live in poverty. Three other GM boroughs are also in the poorest 20: Oldham (6th), Bolton (14th), and Rochdale (20th)." H...
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My false boobs hell !
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Hi always wanted my boobs done so took the plunge this January to finally make my dreams come true. A week later and those dreams are in tatters. The implants that they put in were so big, that the skin has been stretched too tight over the silicon and I’ve ended up with what looked like two rockhard beach...
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The U.K
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Something I came across from a Canadian.What impresses you most about the UK?I’m from Canada, which is the second geographically largest country on Earth after Russia.What impresses me most about the UK is how nature has managed to cram in virtually every type of landscape Canada has into a country...
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Katie Hopkins, how low can she go?
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Very, very low. Kate Garraway supported as ‘vile’ Katie Hopkins mocks grieving host over late husband’s death (msn.com)
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Junior Doctors have started the longest strike in NHS history.
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What happened to entering the profession for the good of their fellow man? "As junior doctors walk out on strike again today in pursuit of a 35 per cent pay increase, they will surely be aware that their decision to stop work for the next six days could cost lives.In 2023, at almost 53,000, there were mo...
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