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Chelsea place bid to buy English
Football Association
Edinburgh International Festival reports drop
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Clarke
launches Swab for Prizes scheme
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Charles
Clarke provides a swab as some of the
instant winners look on in the background
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A new government initiative has been launched
this week to give every UK resident the chance to win great
prizes in exchange for a tiny amount of DNA.
The Swab for Prizes program, which starts
today, promises to be a real hit with the British public, who
will have a chance to win a number of great prizes including
low police harrasment, easy access in and out of the country,
i-pods, shortened hospital waiting times, George Forman Grills
and much more. Full
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Sony unveil
Happy Slapping Hands Free Kit
Electronics
giant Sony today
unveiled a new initiative in mobile phone technology with the
launch of the HS800i, a dedicated Happy Slap
Hands Free Kit.
Sony Erricson are the first to announce a dedicated
Happy Slap specific hands free kit which has been released in
reaction to the massive popularity
of the craze.
The new kit has been hailed as a revolution in the happy
slap community as it opens up the opportunity for users to film
and slap at the same time, which has until now, only been considered
possible for experts.
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Scientists
clone pro-cloning campaigners
British
scientists say they have cloned the country's first pro-cloning
campaigner. The Redtower University team took eggs from 11 anti-cloning
campaigners, removed the genetic material and replaced it with
DNA from pro-clone stem cells.
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