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Is this the most excruciating Today programme exchange yet? The rudeboys of Radio 4 try to get down with their 'bros' – with toe-curling results 
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Taking instructions from an urban slang expert, John Humphreys (pictured) and Justin Webb said ‘bro’, ‘rude-boy’ and ‘blud’ as part of their early morning broadcast exploring the vocabulary ‘of the street’.

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Virgin Galactic crash left me wondering whether to abandon project, Richard Branson admits
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The company’s SpaceShipTwo rocket plane disintegrated over the Mojave desert in California in October, killing one pilot and injuring the other.

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Secret to long life for humans may lie in DNA of the bowhead whale that lives for 200 years
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By studying the genetic patterns of the bowhead whale, researchers in the UK and America found the unique genes linked to resisting cancer and repairing DNA damage.

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Tamzin Outhwaite divorced Tom Ellis 'over more than one-night stand'
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The 44-year-old actress, who married Tom in 2006 and divorced him last year, has suggested that their relationship ended because Tom made more than a single mistake.

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Give a dog a pony: Jack Russell enjoys rides on the back of miniature horse
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Kiss-cam at basketball game captures a couple ‘fighting’
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Every couples love it when they are peer-pressured by a ‘Kiss cam’ to french each-other in front of thousands at public events, right? Well for this couple at a Chicago Bulls and Boston Celtics basketball game, it seemed not to be the case. Whether they were acting out this argument or fighting for real has not been confirmed. Needless to say […]

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Man solves mega Rubik’s Cube in impressive time-lapse video
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Most of our heads would explode just looking at this puzzle. But YouTube user RedKB is built differently, and actually enjoyed solving this mega 17x17x17 Rubik’s Cube. And it only took him seven and a half hours to complete… which doesn’t sound terribly tedious at all. Luckily for us he posted a time-lapse video that […]

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Cat missing after being ‘rolled-up in carpet and taken to tip’
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Albus the cat is missing (Picture: MEN) This cat’s playfulness may have cost him big time. Albus went missing after apparently being rolled-up in his neigbour’s carpet and then taken to the Sharston Recycling Centre in Manchester. The adventurous cat had been playing with a neighbour’s kitten last Monday, frolicking among several carpets destined for […]

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Too Fat To Work couple who weigh 54 stone between them claim £2,000 a month in benefits
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Stephen Beer and Michelle Coombe, are from Plymouth, Devon, where 60 per cent of adults are overweight.

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The middle aged women getting into the swing of things at circus school 
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Circus schools have been opening all over Europe, it has become popular with women over 50. Genevieve Melaugh (right) and Julie Yeung (left) both enjoy their new fitness regimes.

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PICTURED: Queue of 18 ambulances waiting to drop off patients at hospital as 'not enough staff and beds to treat them'
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Ambulance crews waited for up to two hours outside Royal Blackburn Hospital in Lancashire over the weekend, meaning they were unable to respond to further 999 calls.

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Grandfather 's anger over £8,275 power bill due to IT problems at energy giant 
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Rob Gray, of Westley, Suffolk, was sent the bill for 30 times the amount he usually pays Scottish Power for his electricity. After weeks of worry for the pensioner, the company has apologised.

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British Airways passengers told to wait EIGHT DAYS in Mumbai airport
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The holidaymakers – including young children and those with special needs – had flown from Goa to Mumbai after a two-week holiday, where they were due to catch a BA flight to London Heathrow.

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