Union fights over toilet paper

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HEADLINE: Union fights over toilet paper
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/national/cfmeu-to-fight-the-government-over-toilet-paper/story-e6frfku9-1225832818500
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THE CFMEU has written to the Federal Government threatening to launch a full-scale campaign over toilet paper.
The union says a cheap batch of rolls from Indonesia and China soon to arrive in Australia poses a serious threat to jobs and the local manufacturing industry.

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HEADLINE: Sleepless nights 'shrink your brain'
SOURCE LINK: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7286570/Sleepless-nights-shrink-your-brain.html
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For the first time, brain imaging has linked insomnia to a reduction in vital grey matter.
The tests showed that those with chronic sleep problems had lower grey matter density in brain areas used to make decisions.

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HEADLINE: Airline passengers land at wrong island
SOURCE LINK: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/travel/ryanair-abandons-passengers-on-wrong-canary-island-after-thunderstorm/story-e6frezhr-1225832742735
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More than 100 tourists on a Ryanair flight to Lanzarote were stunned when they were abandoned on the wrong Canary Island.

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HEADLINE: Actress vomited on by transsexual
SOURCE LINK: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/oscar-winner-susan-sarandon-vomited-on-by-transsexual-rose-wood-at-burlesque-club/story-e6frewyr-1225832757505
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Oscar winner Susan Sarandon vomited on by transsexual Rose Wood at burlesque club - Sarandon, who recently separated from husband Tim Robbins, got an unpleasant party favour when transsexual performer Rose Wood vomited on stage directly onto the Oscar winner.

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HEADLINE: Drag racer in hearse sets world record
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/drag-racer-in-hearse-sets-world-record/story-e6frfku0-1225832683349
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A TASMANIAN drag racer has set a world record for driving a hearse more than 400 metres in 12.3 seconds, the ABC reported Sunday.

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HEADLINE: Vt. Clerk Foils Robber With 'Let Me Call My Wife'
SOURCE LINK: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/19/ap/strange/main6224653.shtml?tag=cbsnewsSectionContent.12
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A Vermont convenience store clerk foiled a robbery after the would-be robber demanded $200 cash. Said clerk Michael Patel: "Let me call my wife." With that, Vermont State Police said, a 21-year-old man ran from Ascutney Sunoco.

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HEADLINE: PETA Wants School to Scrap Donkey Basketball Game
SOURCE LINK: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,587065,00.html?test=latestnews
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YERINGTON, Nev. — People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is calling for the cancellation of a Nevada school's donkey basketball fundraiser, saying it teaches students cruelty to animals.

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HEADLINE: Austrian mayor gets dead mice in mail in what looked like box of pralines
SOURCE LINK: http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/100219/K021902AU.html
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VIENNA, Austria - The mayor of an Austrian town has received a package in the mail containing two dead mice in what looked like a box of pralines.

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HEADLINE: Mum used bingo winnings for drug operation
SOURCE LINK: http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/2010/02/20/mum-used-bingo-winnings-for-drug-operation-84229-25876879/
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A MOTHER-OF-FOUR has admitted using her bingo winnings to set up a small-scale drug dealing operation.
Amanda Bradshaw, 37, appeared at Teesside Crown Court where she pleaded guilty to possession of a Class B drug with intent to supply.

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HEADLINE: Dead Woman's Head Remains Attached, At Least For Now
SOURCE LINK: http://www.krdo.com/global/story.asp?s=12015256
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COLORADO SPRINGS - A dispute over a woman's remains is taking center stage in an El Paso County courtroom.

Mary Robbins signed on with a Phoenix-based Cryonics Company, Alcor, in an effort to preserve her brain and genetic information. Family members say, days before her death, she changed her mind.

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HEADLINE: Farmer creates a new type of fruit
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/national/mudgee-farmer-bruce-davis-creates-new-type-of-fruit/story-e6frfkvr-1225832605375
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IS it a plum? Is it a peach? It's probably a pleach as it's a morph of the two tasty stone fruits. Whatever it is, it's a love child of the two, accidentally created by a retired NSW farmer. Bruce Davis from Mudgee in the state's central west couldn't believe it when he discovered he had grown a cross between a peach and a plum.

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HEADLINE: 'Half of girls aged six want to be thinner'
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/world/half-of-girls-aged-six-want-to-be-thinner/story-e6frfkz9-1225832537915
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HALF of Britain's six-year-old girls want to be skinnier, with many convinced it would make them more popular. The shock figure emerged in a study by Cambridge University experts, which found most girls believed they were too fat by age 12, the Sun reported.

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HEADLINE: Sex maniac woos wife he tried to kill
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/national/aaron-rolls-launches-jail-bid-to-woo-wife-he-tried-to-kill/story-e6frfkvr-1225832601600
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AN inmate's tried to win back the heart of the wife he and his mistress plotted to drown.
The Sunday Herald Sun reported Aaron Rolls has bombarded his former wife and murder target with a series of letters from his cell.

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