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AND SO TO THE FIVE BIG QUESTIONS OF THE WEEK.


Byline: Brain READE

1 DID the BBC BBC
 in full British Broadcasting Corp.

Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927.
 ban George Galloway and Jodie Marsh from Strictly Come Dancing Come Dancing is a BBC TV ballroom dancing competition show that ran on and off from 1949 to 1998, becoming one of television's longest-running shows.

The show was created by Eric Morley, the founder of Miss World, and began in 1949 by broadcasting from regional
 on the grounds that they'd perfected their tango every day for the past five years on sunbeds?

2 WHEN contemplating an education for their kids, why do the rich always talk about "putting them down" for an English public school? Is it because, like a dog, once they've paid to put them down, they never have to see them again?

3 THE government restricting the numbers of talentless and thus undesirable Romanians coming over here. Any chance we can have retrospective legislation and boot out Michael Howard

For other people named Michael Howard, see Michael Howard (disambiguation).
Michael Howard QC (born 7 July 1941) is a British politician, a Conservative MP since the 1983 General Election for the constituency of Folkestone and Hythe.
?

4 THE Thompson cruise ship that left 1,500 passengers without toilets for three days. What did all those pensioners have to talk about at night with no bowel movements to dissect?

5 TWENTY-FIRST birthday boy Wayne Rooney finally getting the key to the door of his Cheshire stockbroker belt mansion. How delighted must his neighbours be?

DON'T forget to put your clock back an hour before you go to bed on Saturday night. Unless you're watching Strictly Come Dancing, in which case you should put it back 40 years before the show starts. So you can hear Bruce Forsyth's jokes for the first time.

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Publication:The Mirror (London, England)
Date:Oct 26, 2006
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