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Icy North Posted Apr 2, 2008
A new one:
"UAE stages camel beauty contest"
"Ten thousand camels will be fluttering their long eyelashes in a unique international beauty pageant being held in the United Arab Emirates..."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/world/middle_east/7325790.stm
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Orcus Posted Apr 9, 2008
Village in Merseyside to consider a name change
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/7338151.stm
There's got to be some potential in that story 
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McKay The Disorganised Posted Apr 10, 2008
Lunt is also the name of a Roman Fort at Bagington on the outskirts of Coventry.
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Ugi - Keeper of typos & spelling errers - MAT (see A575912) Posted Apr 14, 2008
Not sure if it makes a headline, but there should be a limerick starting:
"There was a young lady from Lunt"
In fact, perhaps the village were to provide a blackboard and chalk under the sign with that first line painted on it.
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Feisor - -0- Generix I made it back - sortof ... Posted Apr 15, 2008
I just had to share this ....
A small Scottish fishing village, known for harvesting tench, held annual contests to see who could eat the most of the fish at one sitting.
In 1990 Graham Hicks, a local from the town of Fife, reached the final round against Sven Larssen from Norway. In a best-of-five contest, Hicks won the first three rounds, eating a total of 11 tench, beating his Scandinavian rival by two.
The local paper, The Bridge Bugle, summed up the result with the following headline: 'One to three for Fife's Hicks; Sven ate nine tench."'
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Icy North Posted Apr 15, 2008
Time for a new one?
Enormous solar 'belches' rip the tail off a passing comet:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7348064.stm
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Icy North Posted Apr 29, 2008
This one should get the floral puns going:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7373737.stm
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Ugi - Keeper of typos & spelling errers - MAT (see A575912) Posted Apr 29, 2008
Street protest marred by violets
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Orcus Posted Apr 29, 2008
Rise in violet crime.
Rise in petal crime.
Criminal sentenced to peony servitude.
Assaulting a police officer? Orchid you not.
Iris'd you in the name of the law.
Interflora EXTREME!
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