'Sponger' family hit by blaze.A COUPLE dubbed dub 1 tr.v. dubbed, dub·bing, dubs 1. To tap lightly on the shoulder by way of conferring knighthood. 2. To honor with a new title or description. 3. the "biggest scroungers in Britain" were homeless last night after their two-year-old set fire to the house with a lighter. Carl and Sa man t ha Gillespie ran around grabbing their 12 children after the blaze BLAZE - A single assignment language for parallel processing. ["The BLAZE Language: A Parallel Language for Scientific Programming", P. Mehrotra <mehrotra@csrd.uiuc.edu> et al, J Parallel Comp 5(3):339-361 (Nov 1987)]. broke out in a bedroom. Two children, aged two and three, breathed smoke and were taken to hospital. A friend said it was started by one of the twins playing with a lighter and "was just an accident". Firefighters were called to the five bedroom rented house in Purley-on-Thames, Berks, at 10pm. Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue said: "We are investigating the cause." The jobless job·less adj. 1. Having no job. 2. Of or relating to those who have no jobs. n. (used with a pl. verb) Unemployed people considered as a group. Used with the. couple were dubbed scroungers after it was claimed they collected more than pounds 43,000 a year in benefits. Rev Roger Howell said after visiting them: "They are very shocked." |
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