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08 June 2011
2012 Olympic torch falls on Brockley
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The 2012 Olympic torch has been unveiled by that creative London design team Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby. But was the inspiration for th...
06 June 2011
Obama steps up the drones: Breaking news
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Pakistani leaders have protested that the country's sovereignty has been violated by the US following a series of drone strikes that hav...
Strauss-Kahn CASE: Breaking news
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The former head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Khan, is due to appear in a New York court for his arraignment, and ha...
Al-Qaida, antimatter weapons and the positron bomb
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An international team at the CERN institute in Switzerland has managed to create 300 atoms of "anti-hydrogen" and stop them from c...
Germany Sprouts Ecoli: Nein not Sicks
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German diners may be both relieved and concerned that the recent E.coli outbreak may have been narrowed down to a single suspect - sprouts. ...
05 June 2011
Cheryl Cole: American X Factor
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Have we been subjected to the S-factor? With reports in the Daily Mail that Cheryl Cole has been invited back on board X-Factor USA one wond...
Gaddafi welcomed UN Terror Council Intervention... in 2009
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My how the sands of time 'flies' for dictators. It was after all only two years ago that Muammar Gaddafi, marking the 40th anniversa...
17 May 2011
Strauss-Kahn: Who he really?
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who is he? It has been claimed that Dominique Strauss-Kahn (note the hyphenated surname) is the well-to-do son of G...
31 January 2011
Union Leader's Phone Hacked: Transcript
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A transcript of a message left on the mobile phone of Bob Crow reveals for the first time that the Union leader has been hacked... by the N...
29 January 2011
Christopher Jefferies? Vincent Tabak? YES, IT COULD BE YOU!
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Will there, one wonders, be any quarry stone left unturned with the public‘s right to know - in a dwindling band of countries abbreviated to...
28 January 2011
The statin fad: F-forget A-anger and D-depression
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When TheBigRetor t conducted an investigation into the increased use of statins in its office diet, it came up with a forgetful medical prof...
20 January 2011
Jo Yeates: Dutch suspect's new life in England
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VINCENT TABAK The new suspect arrested following the murder of Joanna Yeates wrote of starting a new life in England. Thirty-two year-old Vi...
19 January 2011
Jo Yeates: About time?
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Carrying on from my last posting into the abduction and murder of Joanna Yeates , isn't it about time? TheBigRetort ... The murder of ...
12 January 2011
Jo Yeates: Reflections of guilt
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Eerily, at the Tesco checkout Jo is illuminated in the screen of a man who is also shopping nearby. A reflection of guilt? Was the man in t...
28 October 2010
The Wow Signal explored
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Somewhere in the cosmos a tiny blue planet receives an alien signal. A researcher writes "Wow!" Nearly forty years lapse. It quick...
07 October 2010
New planet discovered
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A science paper predicts that a nearby red-star system known as Gliese 581 is the likely candidate for an extrasolar habitable world. Two ...
01 October 2010
The Apprentice: Sir Alan knuckles under
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Sir Alan Sugar may feel even he has gone a bit too far if he hires former Marine Christopher Farrell. TheBigRetort lifts the lid on the Knu...
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