7th August 18:43BST, UK evening news flash summary:

Posted Aug 7, 2008 by ■ Paul Whittaker in World 10 comments

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Main:

Sky - The Bank of England has kept the base rate of interest at 5%.
Times - Government proposals: Date-rape chemicals and anabolic steroids to be banned.
BBC - Video: Police have raided a former chicken factory and found 3,500 cannabis plants worth £3 million.
Independent - Secret intelligence claiming Madeleine McCann was snatched to order by a Belgian paedophile ring is flawed, sources said today.
Guardian - Kidney cancer drugs judged too costly for 3,000 NHS patients.
Sun - Police investigating allegations of beastiality against sheep have had their enquiries hampered. It appears that their main suspect has a twin brother.

Economy:

Independent - Shares in Lonmin soar 48 per cent after it rejects £5 billion Xstrata offer.
Mail - Barclays profits fall 33% after credit crunch forces it to write off £2.8 billion in six months.

Other:

Guardian - Police in New Zealand hunting a prolific burglar have issued a wanted poster bearing a photograph of the British actor Robbie Coltrane who stars in the Harry Potter movies as Hagrid.
Mirror - Barack Obama's great uncle is Irish wig-maker.
Sun - Real life Ghostbusters: Poltergeist caught on video.
Times - 'Booger' dog-clones owner denies she was Mormon sex kidnapper Joyce McKinney.

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Posted Aug 7, 2008 by ■ Chris V. Thangham
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Obama's Irish Background is very interesting. The Madeline story is still puzzling, what exactly happened, every day there is a different motive. The Belgian motive sounds plausible, there are crooks out there like Mafia. The pedophile ring is well know there I believe.
I read the Guardian story, it was very funny, why would they put a Robbie Coltrane photo for a 16 year old criminal.

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Posted Aug 8, 2008 by ■ Paul Whittaker
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I found the Times story about the woman who cloned her pit bull Booger and has links to a sex kidnap of a Mormon years ago. In fact the Times hacks have been digging a little more and come up with what shes been up to over the years since the kidnap.

Regarding Obamas Irish wig making background, well, a few days a go we did have reports that Victoria Beckham was related to Karl Marxs right hand man. So I guess by Monday we will have discovered that Tom Cruise really is an alien ...

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Posted Aug 9, 2008 by ■ Debra Myers
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Date rape drugs being banned. Poltergeists. Beastiality. Hagrid's on a wanted poster...what next? LOLOL!

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Posted Aug 9, 2008 by ■ Paul Whittaker
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@■ Debra Myers
Date rape drugs being banned. Poltergeists. Beastiality. Hagrid's on a wanted poster...what next? LOLOL!

Lol

... John Edwards has a love child ? Damn, the UK missed that ! ;-)

The sheep sex assault story is just so weird ... a twin involved ... you just couldnt make it up !

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Posted Aug 9, 2008 by ■ Debra Myers
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@■ Paul Whittaker
Lol

... John Edwards has a love child ? Damn, the UK missed that ! ;-)

The sheep sex assault story is just so weird ... a twin involved ... you just couldnt make it up !

Nothing like shaahaaring! LOLOL!

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Posted Aug 9, 2008 by ■ Paul Whittaker
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@■ Debra Myers
Nothing like shaahaaring! LOLOL!

Deb ! And I thought you were a nice girl ! You do know that Im poor and pure ... Church of England.

... Im only messing, a nice girl with a great sense of humour :-)

Baaaaaaaaad ass lol

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Posted Aug 9, 2008 by ■ Debra Myers
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@■ Paul Whittaker
Deb ! And I thought you were a nice girl ! You do know that Im poor and pure ... Church of England.

... Im only messing, a nice girl with a great sense of humour :-)

Baaaaaaaaad ass lol

ROTFL! And I'm a simple country girl to boot! Giggle!

As a note...we have a town not too far from here called Prattsburg, where it's rumored that "the women run wild and the sheep run scared"!!!! Honest to God...that's the saying I've heard for some 20-30 years! LOLOL!

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Posted Aug 9, 2008 by ■ Paul Whittaker
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@■ Debra Myers
ROTFL! And I'm a simple country girl to boot! Giggle!

As a note...we have a town not too far from here called Prattsburg, where it's rumored that "the women run wild and the sheep run scared"!!!! Honest to God...that's the saying I've heard for some 20-30 years! LOLOL!

LMAO !!!!! Thats the funniest thing Ive heard in a long time ... I might start using that for 'Derbyshire, England', hope that you dont mind ... we have a few sheep you know ;-)

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Posted Aug 9, 2008 by ■ Debra Myers
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@■ Paul Whittaker
LMAO !!!!! Thats the funniest thing Ive heard in a long time ... I might start using that for 'Derbyshire, England', hope that you dont mind ... we have a few sheep you know ;-)

Go for it! We've been known to pick on some people that we know that lives there in that town...ya just gotta, ya know???? Glad I tickled yer funny bones!

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Posted Aug 9, 2008 by ■ Paul Whittaker
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@■ Debra Myers
Go for it! We've been known to pick on some people that we know that lives there in that town...ya just gotta, ya know???? Glad I tickled yer funny bones!

Thanks Deb, consider my funny bones well and truly tickled :-)

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