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I'm getting a lot of not responding pages when surfing the net,when i first bought the computer about 6 months ago,it was fine....now it does it all the time!!! Any ideas? and it's also extremely slow....it's dual core 3GHZ processor,with now 4GB Ram,512MB video card.500GB HDD.
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For the first time since 1982! We just won our qualifier 1-0! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO :):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):)
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Fury as immigrant baby killer is paid £4,500 'bribe' to quit Britain By Brendan Carlin Last updated at 10:14 AM on 15th November 2009 Comments (-) Add to My Stories Brutal: Agnes Wong swung the baby by his ankles and smashed his head An immigrant convicted of the horrific killing of a 17-month-old baby has been given £4,500 by the Government as a 'bribe' to leave the country. Malaysian Agnes Wong, 29, was jailed for five years in 2008 for the brutal manslaughter of a toddler she was supposed to be child-minding. She was let out of prison in July this year, and two weeks ago was put on a plane at Heathrow and sent to Malaysia with a 'vo…
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£10m of cocaine found hidden in shipment of candy bars By Mail Foreign Service Last updated at 3:43 PM on 14th November 2009 Comments (0) Add to My Stories 230kg of cocaine was discovered hidden in a shipment of panela candy (file picture) Spanish police have found cocaine worth nearly £10million hidden in bars of candy. Some 230 kilos of the drug were found in a container which arrived at Valencia from Colombia last week. Inside the container were 34,000 bars of panela, a typical South American candy made from the juice of sugar cane. They were destined for a cocaine laboratory which police had already uncovered last mon…
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Walcome tae the Scottish Pairlament wabsite: The internet guide to Holyrood translated into 'Rab C Nesbitt' dialect By Simon Walters Last updated at 10:17 PM on 14th November 2009 Comments (0) Add to My Stories The guide describes Alex Salmond as the 'first meenister' To a handful of proud Scots, it is a valuable guide to Scottish politics, using the language of their forefathers before the country was taken over by Sassenachs who forced them to speak the Queen’s English. But to English sceptics it may sound as though Rab C Nesbitt actor Gregor Fisher, who played the shambolic Glaswegian alcoholic in the Nineties television sitcom,…
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did anyone watch the fight? pacquiao absolutely hammered cotto winning him his 7th world title. he has now won world titles in flyweight, super bantamweight, super featherweight, lightweight and welterweight. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnCN3TnRtlk]YouTube- Pacquiao vs Cotto Full Fight Part 1/7[/ame] many call him the greatest ever. hard to disagree. next up is Mr Mayweather Jnr.
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Illegal downloaders spend MORE on music than those who obey the law By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 7:47 AM on 02nd November 2009 Comments (55) Add to My Stories Illegal music downloaders spend more on singles and albums than anyone else People who illegally download music spend more on official releases than anyone else, according to a new survey. The study, published today by think-tank Demos, found those who admit to file sharing spent an average £77 a year on singles and albums - £33 more than those who claim never to have wrongly accessed music for free. Researcher Peter Bradwell said the findings should force companies and p…
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Ashes cricket to return to free-to-air TV as new 'crown jewels' list set to spark ECB fury and Westminster row By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 12:00 PM on 13th November 2009 Comments (13) Add to My Stories The Ashes could return to terrestrial television after a Government review ruled today that it should be on a 'crown jewel' list of sporting events. The cricket series has been put on the list of events whose broadcasting rights should not be given to satellite channels. The proposals are good news for fans, many of whom could not watch this summer's Ashes live, won by England in the final test at The Oval, because it was only on …
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Fat mothers-to-be banned from giving birth at their local hospital By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 11:55 PM on 12th November 2009 Comments (300) Add to My Stories Mothers-to-be with a body mass index of over 34 will be forced to travel 20 miles to a high-tech maternity unit Pregnant women are to be barred from giving birth at their local hospital if midwives consider them to be too fat, it emerged today. Mothers-to-be with a body mass index of over 34 – the equivalent of a woman of 5ft 6in weighing 15 stone - will be turned away from the unit because of fears among staff that obese patients could die there during child birth. …
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Are your lazy children sleeping in on the weekends? Don't worry, it may keep them slim By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 9:13 AM on 14th November 2009 Comments (8) Add to My Stories If you're fed up with your children lazing in bed at the weekends, perhaps you should think again. Those extra hours of sleep could be keeping them trim, research suggests. Scientists who studied children aged five to 15 found those who slept in on Saturdays and Sundays were much less likely to have weight problems. Sweet dreams: Children who sleep in on weekends are less likely to be obese according to research Studies show sleeping just a f…
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Met police marksman removed from duty after posting naked pictures online By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 4:26 PM on 10th November 2009 Comments (7) Add to My Stories PC Malcolm Thomas has been removed from Scotland Yard's specialist CO19 unit amid the photograph controversy A police marksman was removed from Scotland Yard's specialist CO19 unit today after posting revealing pictures of himself online. PC Malcolm Thomas, 40, is at the centre of an an internal investigation after it was claimed he used the name 'funboybobby' to display a series of revealing photographs on an adult dating website. Some of the photos which showe…
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Wasteful Britons throw away £12bn of food and drink a year... costing each household £680 By Sean Poulter Last updated at 9:45 AM on 10th November 2009 Comments (19) Add to My Stories Wasteful: Throwing away food costs each household £680 a year Britons are throwing out at a staggering £12billion of food and drink a year, including huge quantities of wine, it is claimed. Government advisers claim the average family is wasting around £680 a year - more than £50 a month - by failing to plan their buying and eating more carefully. The new calculation tops a figure of £10billion produced last year because it now includes drink, such a…
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Brits among the 'ugliest people in the world' By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:04 PM on 11th November 2009 Comments (36) Add to My Stories Brits are among the ugliest people in the world... according to an exclusive website which only allows 'beautiful' people to join. Less than one in eight UK men (12 per cent) and just three in 20 women (15 per cent) who have applied to BeautifulPeople.com have been accepted as members. Existing members of the website rate how attractive potential members are over a 48-hour provisional period, when applicants upload a recent photograph and a short personal profile. The ugly truth: Harry Enfield …
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Benefits cheat 'too weak to walk' runs 5km in Race for Life By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 2:52 PM on 13th November 2009 Comments (23) Add to My Stories A benefits cheat was filmed happily running the Race for Life with thousands of other women - despite claiming more than £20,000 for being 'too weak to walk.' Susan Hutchinson, 56, fiddled disability cash saying it takes her 15 minutes to walk 100 yards because of asthma, joint pain and a weak bladder. But fraud investigators caught her on video camera smiling as she ran around the 5km course in her jogging gear. Susan Hutchinson, 56, claimed more than £20,000 for being 'too w…
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'Balloon Boy' parents to dodge jail - and deportation - in deal with prosecutors to plead guilty to hoax By Mail Foreign Service Last updated at 4:03 PM on 13th November 2009 Comments (2) Add to My Stories The parents of America's 'Balloon Boy' will escape jail after pleading guilty to wasting police time. Richard Heene and his wife Mayumi are set to be given probation after a securing a plea deal with prosecutors following their elaborate hoax. The couple had claimed their son Falcon, six, was adrift in a home-made balloon sparking a massive rescue effort that transfixed America. Facing separation: Richard Heene (left), his wife Mayumi,…
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Hey there I come to bother again, now the thing is I got my bandwidth internet or whatever it's called, I got my usb that gives me internet anywhere in my lap. It's not the bet thing, it's supposed to work at a decent speed til I use it too much and download too many stuff, then I wait until the end of the month and speed again. THE IMPORTANT THING, my internet has been way too slow the past week, it takes like 30 min to load a 4 min youtube vid!! It's been a turtle lately. That' not normal, I've had it for 3 months now and it should not be like that since I just paid the month service recently. I goy Symantec (from school) and it got some viruses in quarintine a…
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Fury after Scouts shout death threats at Jewish war hero parade By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 1:44 PM on 13th November 2009 Comments (33) Add to My Stories Scouts who screamed death threats at Jewish war heroes during a Remembrance Day parade are today being investigated by police. Witnesses said the teenage scouts repeatedly shouted 'Let's kill the Jews' at ex-servicemen attending a parade in Romford, Essex, to honour the fallen. A furious Scout leader has since issued an apology for the taunts while police are carrying out an investigation. Disrespect: Scouts repeatedly shouted 'Let's kill the Jews' at horrified ex-serviceme…
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Six pupils rushed to hospital after copying scene of schoolchildren drinking deadly ethanol on BBC's Waterloo Road By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 4:15 PM on 13th November 2009 Comments (71) Add to My Stories Six schoolchildren at a specialist science college had to be taken to hospital after they copied a TV storyline and made cocktails from a chemical. The five girls and a boy, aged 14 and 15, mimicked scenes from an episode of the BBC drama Waterloo Road which aired on Wednesday evening. The episode of the Manchester-based drama which centres on a troubled comprehensive school featured a girl being taken to hospital by a teacher af…
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What a ****... those are the only words I can use to sum up the following video! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8345940.stm
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Most people keep their ducks in the bath... but this lot aren't made of rubber By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 10:42 PM on 12th November 2009 Comments (0) Add to My Stories There's not a huge amount of room and it gets rather dull going round and round a little sink - but it's a whole lot better than being in the cold outside. These ducklings were rescued by a farmer after they hatched earlier this week - six months before most broods. Fearing they would perish outside, the farmer took them indoors and later put them in his bathroom sink for their first paddle. First paddle: The ducklings were rescued by a farmer after they ha…
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Priceless! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8354531.stm
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Premiership goalkeeper Carlo Cudicini cheats death in horror motorbike smash By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 6:20 PM on 12th November 2009 Comments (19) Add to My Stories Carlo Cudicini is being treated for a broken pelvis after a motorbike crash Premier League goalkeeper Carlo Cudicini is in hospital with 'possibly life-changing' injuries after crashing his BMW motorbike today. The former Chelsea star - whose career could now be in serious doubt - is being treated for a suspected broken pelvis and broken wrists after the crash. His superbike collided with a Ford Fiesta on Forest Road, Walthamstow, east London at 10.30am. …
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/scotland/6557627/Labour-wins-Glasgow-North-East-by-election-as-SNP-concedes.html In Glasgow East to be precise. That means this party will defeat the likes of the Lib Dems and the Conservatives in the poll. No surprise that Conservative will come no where particularly in an urban Scottish constituency, but the BNP defeating the Lib Dems? I think it raises an eyebrow since the BNP have never been that popular in Scotland. Oh dear. Not good. Is this the Question Time effect taking place?
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:rolleyes: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20091112/twl-facebook-alibi-saves-jailed-teenager-3fd0ae9.html
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