Britons 'sleep in dirty duvets'

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HEADLINE: Britons 'sleep in dirty duvets'
SOURCE LINK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hereford/worcs/5170400.stm
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Britons are likely to be sleeping under duvets which are riddled with dust mites and dead skin, research shows.
Tests carried out on 10 duvets at the University of Worcester found they held up to 20,000 live house dust mites.
And a survey also revealed two-in-five Britons admitted to not washing duvets every six months.
The worst case was a duvet that had not been washed for 11 years and contained 45g of debris including skin scales and house dust mite faeces.

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HEADLINE: Bare cheek or a fashion faux pas
SOURCE LINK: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/bare-cheek-or-a-fashion-faux-pas-venus/story-e6freye0-1225823051299
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VENUS Williams likes to get cheeky on the court. Her risque dress is all about creating "an illusion", but was the point of this illusion to make it seem like she was wearing no underwear?
No, no the point of the flesh-coloured underwear was to highlight the thigh-high and V-neck splits, Williams explained. Of course.

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HEADLINE: Man' stole golf buggy during police chase'
SOURCE LINK: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/breaking-news/man-stole-golf-buggy-during-police-chase/story-e6freuz0-1225822950018
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A MAN allegedly hit a police officer with a golf club after stealing a golf buggy during a pursuit on the NSW central coast.
Police allege the 25-year-old stole five bottles of alcohol from a Newcastle bottle shop about 10.45am (AEDT) yesterday.
He was stopped in his car a short time later, but then took off, leading police on a chase along Lookout Road.
He eventually pulled over, ran onto a golf course and stole a golf buggy, police allege.
The man is accused of then trying to steal a 70-year-old man's keys and hitting him with a golf club.
He was finally arrested but again lashed out with the club, striking the senior constable in the arm, police said.

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HEADLINE: Owners pay to be buried with pets
SOURCE LINK: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/petshealth/7061716/Owners-pay-to-be-buried-with-their-pets.html
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From Egyptian pharaohs to Anglo-Saxon warriors, humans have been buried alongside their most sacred or treasured animals.
Now the practice is making a comeback with an increasing number of pet owners seeking burials with their favourite cats, dogs and horses.
Planners in Lincolnshire last week approved the latest in a series of joint animal and human cemeteries where masters can be interred close to their beloved companions rather than being cremated.
A handful of joint cemeteries even allow pets and owners to be buried in the same plot.

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HEADLINE: 8.25am: meltdown time for mums
SOURCE LINK: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/lifestyle/sex-relationships/am-meltdown-time-for-modern-mums/story-e6frf01i-1225822870649
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AT 8.25am, you'll usually find the modern mother at her most stressed.
She's just dropped off the kids at daycare or school and is at that minute battling traffic to get to the office by 9am.
By then a typical working mum has had to get the children out of bed, dressed with a full tummy, hair and teeth brushed, bags packed, lunches made and strapped in the car - stress levels building with each task as time ticks away
A British study of 2000 mothers found stress levels peak at 8.25am as women juggle the drop-off with increasingly heavy traffic to get to work. Invariably, many are late.

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HEADLINE: $2m suit after candy mistaken for cocaine
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/weird-true-freaky/m-suit-after-cocaine-turns-out-to-be-candy/story-e6frflri-1225822848491
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TWO American men who were jailed for a week after police mistook their coconut candy for crack cocaine are planning to file a US$2 million ($2.21m) lawsuit, according to US reports.
José Pena, a 48-year-old plumber, and his longtime friend and colleague Cesar Rodriguez, 33, from the Bronx, New York, were arrested on January 15 after police found a bag of what they thought was cocaine, reports The New York Post.
The "drugs" were finally tested five days later and determined to be popular Coco (coconut) Candy. The charges were dropped.

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HEADLINE: Alleged Car Thief Found Playing 'Grand Theft Auto'
SOURCE LINK: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/22/ap/strange/main6130741.shtml?tag=cbsnewsSectionContent.12
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Sheriff's deputies in central Florida found a suspected car thief playing the "Grand Theft Auto" video game, and they later charged him with just that.
Polk County deputies investigating the theft of a 1998 Dodge Durango arrested 30-year-old Michael Ray Ekes on Thursday. They found the SUV outside a Haines City home. Ekes was inside in the house, playing the popular video game.
Ekes was charged with grand theft auto, burglary and drug possession. At the time of his arrest, he was out of jail on bond f

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HEADLINE: Married Man's Spurned Mistress Posts Sexy Billboards
SOURCE LINK: http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2010/01/22/crimesider/entry6129164.shtml?tag=cbsnewsSectionContent.5
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NEW YORK (CBS) YaVaughnie Wilkins might call it love.
Oracle's Charles Phillips might call it stalking.
In a tale of love meets obsession, Wilkins took it upon herself to plaster three cities with compromising billboards of the two together in better times.
"You are my soulmate forever!" read one.
"Charles & Y Vaughnie," read another.
Sweet, huh?
Trouble is that Phillips, president of the software giant Oracle, was married to his wife, Karen, during Phillips' eight-and-a-half-year extramarital affair with Wilkins.

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HEADLINE: Man Nabbed for Urinating on $600 Worth of Steaks
SOURCE LINK: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,583722,00.html?test=latestnews
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An Ohio man is in jail after he was arrested for urinating on a meat counter at a Wal-Mart store, Cleveland's Fox8.com reported.
Robert T. Jenkins, 21, of Canton, Ohio, was arrested at 1:30 a.m. local time on Friday morning, Lt. Linda Brown of the Canton Police Department told Fox8.com. Jenkins was charged with felony vandalism and disorderly conduct.
Jenkins was arrested after police responded to a call from an employee at the Wal-Mart store telling authorities that a man walked up to the meat counter and began urinating on the steaks, police told Fox8.com. The disorderly conduct destroyed more than $600 dollars in meat.

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HEADLINE: Bed sharing 'drains men's brains'
SOURCE LINK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/5197440.stm
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Sharing a bed with someone could temporarily reduce your brain power - at least if you are a man - Austrian scientists suggest.
When men spend the night with a bed mate their sleep is disturbed, whether they make love or not, and this impairs their mental ability the next day.
The lack of sleep also increases a man's stress hormone levels.
According to the New Scientist study, women who share a bed fare better because they sleep more deeply.

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