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Flatulent dog complains about being compared to Miliband

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Depressed: Pertinax has been unable to face the world since it happened

Local dog, Pertinax, is threatening to sue the BBC for defamation of character after being slurred on Newsnight.

“I was enjoying watching Jeremy Paxman’s last show,” Pertinax told us from the house he allows the Thorvald family to share with him having chosen them to take him away from a Dunstable cats and dogs home two years ago. “And it was all right, bit smug maybe but it was okay and then Paxman said it.” Continue reading

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Paxman’s final Newsnight: Will Michael Howard be on?

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Thinks: Howard, you utter ‘chump’

Jeremy Paxman will front his last Newsnight tonight. Paxman sprang to international prominence after his 1997 ‘grilling’ of  Michael Howard. Hopes were high that the irritatingly smug veteran might be persuaded to appear tonight and interview the former Tory leader again.

The BBC still doesn’t know if Howard will be there however, as revealed in this transcript leaked to the Evening Harold.

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Jeremy Paxman to leave Newsnight after Panorama reveal years of abuse

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Following on from an undercover Panorama reporter into the mistreatment of the elderly, Jeremy Paxman has admitted he can’t take it anymore and announced he is to leave Newsnight.

Disturbing scenes showed members of the Newsnight production team shouting at him and often reducing him to tears.

In one instance a junior researcher can be seen giving him a slap for complaining his latte was too sweet.

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