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Navy chopper's wee accident
A Royal Navy helicopter has been caught on camera knocking over a row of portable toilets, sending plumes of toilet paper streaming into the sky. The low-flying chopper was moving a field gun when it got too close to the toilets and the downwash from its rotors spread the cabins – and their contents – over a wide area.[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"content_original","fid":"94772","attributes":{"class":"media-image"}}]]
Domino's store saves customer's life
Workers at a Domino's Pizza shop have been credited with saving the life of a customer. When Kirk Alexander, who ordered food every day from the Oregon store, hadn't been in touch for 11 days, staff sent a driver around to his house to check up on him. However, the driver couldn't get an answer and so called the police, who broke into the house and found Alexander in "significant medical distress". He is now recovering in hospital.
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Inclusive Britain: a new strategy for tackling racism in the UKSpeed Read Government has revealed action plan setting out 74 steps that ministers will take
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Anti-Semitism in America: a case of double standards?Speed Read Officials were strikingly reluctant to link Texas synagogue attack to anti-Semitism
