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UNDERHAND METHODS
Derby developer Ram Narroya objected after a tree preservation order was slapped on the site of a former council children's home the day after the city council sold it to him at auction for a reported £565,000.

GOVERNMENT PLANS
The Government is planning the surveillance of all children, including information on whether they eat five portions of fruit and vegetables a day.

JUNK MAIL
Blame local authorities and government agencies for the mountain of junk mail that falls on your doormat.

RACIAL AND RELIGIOUS HATRED BILL
The new Racial and Religious Hatred Bill will create a new offence of incitement to religious hatred and would apply to comments made in public or in the media, as well as through written material.

IN CASE OF EMERGENCY
East Anglian Ambulance Service has launched a national "In Case of Emergency" (ICE) campaign with the support of Falklands war hero Simon Weston.

FLOGGING A DEAD HORSE
The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says that when you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.

RACE DRUG
Doctors could soon be prescribing the world's first race-specific drug amid a storm of controversy.

THOUGHT PROVOKING?
We know Dick Lamm as the former Governor of Colorado. In that context his thoughts are particularly poignant.

HEAGE 'IDLE LAND' SELL-OFF
Derbyshire County Council plans to sell off the site of the former Parkside Primary School.

G8 SUMMIT
They may have been discussing matters of global importance, but the G8 meeting has cost taxpayers the earth.

COMPUTER CRIMINALS
Computer criminals are coming up with ever stealthier ways to make money.

NATIONAL LOTTERY
The National Lottery was supposed to be 'A Good Thing'.

MAN ACCUSED OF HAVING SEX WITH CHICKEN
After chicken feathers and blood were found all over a room at a Valparaiso Motel, police were called to investigate.

VIAGRA OVERDOSE
The first documented case of a Viagra overdose has been reported by emergency room staff at a Houston hospital.

BAILIFFS
If a person fails to settle a debt, as a last resort a court can send a bailiff in to seize the debtor's possessions.

TV LICENCE DETECTION
Television Enquiry Officers must interview you under caution, if they are to use their visit as evidence against you in court.

WAITING FOR A CHANGE
We're told time and time again by government and do-gooders that our attitude towards public transport needs to change. It's not our attitude that needs to change, it's public transport.

NTL
A real customer complaint letter sent to NTL.

CREMATORIUM
Markeaton Crematorium has confirmed it expects to have a scheme up and running within months, under which metal remnants among the ashes of cremated people would be made available to the next of kin.

ROYAL WEDDING FARCE
The Queen will not attend the civil marriage ceremony of her son Prince Charles and his new bride Camilla Parker Bowles.

QUANGOS
A report has claimed that many quangos are "useless". The UK has 529 quangos, nominally independent, government-funded agencies, all of which are named in a critical new guide.

CAR ALARMS
For those who have suffered sleepless nights because of car alarms, an MP's plan to make them all but inaudible will be music to their ears.

SCRAP CARS
Clapped out old cars fetch millions of pounds as scrap metal every year, so why are owners breaking the law by abandoning their old bangers at the side of the road?

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION
Ministers' promises to usher in a new age of freedom of information have failed to materialise, with scores of requests to open the Government to public scrutiny being rejected.

MANY INJURED IN CITY CENTRE BOMB BLAST
Many shoppers were injured following a terrorist attack in the city centre. The Eagle Centre was evacuated shortly after a coded message was received by security services stating that an explosive device had been planted in the market.

NESTLÉ WANT $6m FROM STARVING ETHIOPIANS
An Oxfam campaign exposed how Nestlé, is demanding a compensation settlement of around $6m from the Ethiopian government.

TESCO AND WAL-MART
Tesco and Wal-Mart both own chains of stores in Japan. All these chains are currently selling the meat of whales, dolphins and porpoises, although the ways in which they are hunted are unnecessarily cruel and in many cases illegal.

THEY DON'T WANT THE WORK
Stuck for a plumber? Need a new TV aerial fitting? Got a problem with your PC? Well, you could call one of the many independent small one-man businesses that advertise regularly in the back pages of your local paper.

LITTLE BOOK OF BOLLOCKS
Cabinet ministers are in line for an award they will not want to win after Tessa Jowell, the Secretary of State for Culture, accused them of talking gobbledegook ordinary people cannot understand.

SHREDDED
Hundreds of thousands of secret Whitehall files are being shredded before the public gains the right to see them under the Freedom of Information Act.

COUNCIL BACKED PLAYHOUSE
Derby New Theatre organisation has been formed because the city council has backed plans by the Derby Playhouse to force non-professional (amateur) theatre companies into an unworkable, unviable and unsustainable summertime festival season

BURGLARS
Tory MP Patrick Mercer wants to pass a bill which would mean householders would only be prosecuted if they used "grossly disproportionate" force.

DVD KILLED THE VIDEO
Dixons said that a boom in sales of DVD technology will kill off the video recorder.

ID CARDS WILL NOT HELP
Make no mistake; the government will sell your data. No coincidence that Blunkett made the allusion to the supermarket loyalty card.

NANNY STATE
Children's Minister Margaret Hodge has sparked Tory anger by praising the "unsung virtues" of the nanny state.

CHOCOLATE FOR COUGHS
An ingredient in chocolate may actually be a more effective cough medicine than traditional remedies.

TORY PLANS
Mums will be paid £150 a week to stay at home and look after their kids under Tory plans.

END OF FREE ATM's
Banks are accused of dismantling the nationwide network of free cash machines.

AA BREAKDOWN
The AA were not obliged to help Mrs Murfin. It wasn't a breakdown, she didn't have Home Start and it wasn't their fault she left the keys in her car.

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