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			<description><![CDATA[ Anyone have any good ideas?  Here is the situation.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Florence & The Machine ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Anybody else totally in love with this band/woman?
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			<title><![CDATA[ Book review ]]></title>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Fire sale with 'substantial discounts' as top off-licence names go into administration ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <p>Savings of more than 30 per cent on champagne, wine, beer and spirits are on the cards at 373 big name off-licences which are set for closure.
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<p>Details were announced by KPMG today, who have been brought in to run the business, which went into administration earlier this week.... ]]></description>

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			<title><![CDATA[ How one war memorial is desecrated in Britain every week ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <p>War memorials are being desecrated by thieves and vandals at the rate of more than one a week.</p>

<p>Figures released on the eve of Remembrance Sunday reveal how thugs are casually vandalising plaques, statues and stone crosses.</p>

<p>Since the country paused to commemorate the war dead in November last year, yobs have damaged at least 56 war memorials.</p>

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			<title><![CDATA[ Sharon Osbourne 'attacks' Susan Boyle on radio show ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <h2>Sharon Osbourne has attacked Britain&#39;s Got Talent star Susan Boyle on American radio, claiming the singer looked like a &quot;slapped arse&quot;.</h2>

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			<title><![CDATA[ Simon MacCorkindale has terminal cancer ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <h2>The actor Simon MacCorkindale has revealed he is suffering from terminal cancer.</h2>

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			<title><![CDATA[ British tourist, Thomas Reeve, shot dead in Amarillo, Texas ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <h2>Thomas Reeve, a &quot;happy go lucky&quot; British tourist on a road trip across America with two friends, was shot dead in a bar in Amarillo by a masked
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			<title><![CDATA[ Gordon Brown: worldwide snub over tax plans ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <h2>Gordon Brown is facing international embarrassment after leading nations slapped down his proposal for a tax on financial transactions to raise hundreds of
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			<title><![CDATA[ DOES BRITAIN HATE BRAINIACS? ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Does Britain hate brainiacs? A former University Challenge winner reckons this country prizes success over intelligence. We admire those with tons of cash or
look great but have little interest in those with great brains. Is this true and if so why? Are we threatened by intelligence? Do we think it&#39;s easier to
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			<title><![CDATA[ 15 TOO LATE FOR COMPULSORY SEX ED? ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Is 15 too late for compulsory sex education? There&#39;ll be no opt out when these classes begin in two years time: every pupil will have lessons on sex, drugs
and relationships though younger kids can be withdrawn from other sex and relationship classes. 15? Isn&#39;t that a bit late for such classes to be
compulsory? Has Ed Balls bottled it and missed a golden opportunity to tackle teen pregnancy? Or maybe you think he&#39;s wronged parents who don&#39;t want
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			<title><![CDATA[ Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street? ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <strong>After more than 4000 episodes the iconic children&#39;s television programme Sesame Street is celebrating its 40th anniversary. What are your memories?
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<br></strong>The show, founded to help educate American pre-schoolers, premiered in 1969, and is the longest running children&#39;s program on US television.
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Big Bird, Elmo the Cookie Monster and their friends... ]]></description>

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			<title><![CDATA[ How would you spend £45 million? ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <strong>Two British winners are to share a 100m euros (£90m) EuroMillions jackpot. Can a lottery win bring happiness?
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<br></strong>The amount is the largest lottery prize ever paid out in the UK. If either of the two winners is an individual and not a syndicate it will also be
the UK&#39;s largest ever individual win.
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Nine European countries take part in the weekly... ]]></description>

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			<title><![CDATA[ Palins Own Side Turned Out Lights To Stop Her Speaking! ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <h1>Sarah Palin planned to call her husband America&#39;s &#39;first ever Second Dude&#39;, leaked victory speech reveals</h1>

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<p>By <a class="author" target="_blank" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=y&amp;authornamef=Wil+Longbottom" rel="nofollow">Wil Longbottom</a>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Chris Moyles facing axe from Radio 1 breakfast show... and could be replaced by his pal Vernon Kay ]]></title>
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<p>Chris Moyles&#39; reign over the airwaves could end next year in the face of plummeting listeners, the Daily Mail has learnt.</p>

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			<title><![CDATA[ Councils will lose the right to snoop using terror law ]]></title>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Vatican's fury as court bans crucifixes in Italian classrooms because they 'breach religious rights ]]></title>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Britain's first £1,000 train ticket sparks row over soaring rail fares ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <p>A 1,700-mile first class train journey from Cornwall to the remote Scottish fishing village of Kyle of Lochalsh - and back again - certainly sounds like a
grand trip. </p>

<p>And now it&#39;s got a price tag to match. </p>

<p>The first £1,000 fare in the history of Britain&#39;s railways has been revealed by a survey showing how long- distance prices have soared since
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