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    enAugust 20, 2014
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    About this Episode

    Alex and Rob cast an irreverent eye over local news from their respective home towns.

     

    Listeners can submit stories from their local area to:lapodcast.net@gmail.com 

     

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    • Tesco introduces mandatory chocoloate bar identification training.
    • Tests reveal that mystery object found in loaf of bread to be 15th century Papal ring.
    • Gnomes held in police custody on firearms charge.
    • Environmentalist attempts to recycle disused JCB digger.

    Also revealed: We discuss the bread product compensation scale...

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