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Hit & Run: Doctor America
Reports that CNN medical correspondent Dr Sanjay Gupta is to join Barack Obama's team as the first Surgeon General of the incoming administration may seem an eye-catching appointment on this side of the pond – isn't that a bit like Robert Peston being asked to head up the Treasury?
Hit & Run: The faces don't fit
When a world-famous celebrity decides to endorse an insurance company, the chances are it's not because they've saved 100 quid on their home contents cover. More likely, they've been offered a considerably larger sum for approximately half a day's work. How else to explain Iggy Pop's bizarre appearance in a new advertising campaign for Swiftcover? In the television commercial, the perenially topless Mr Pop explains that his crazy life leaves him little time or patience for paperwork. Swiftcover.com, however, stores all his information securely online without him having to think about it: "Get a life!" he orders us, "Get Swiftcovered!"
Pandora: Boris forced to cough up over C-charge fine
It is comforting to know that Boris Johnson is not immune to the draconian measures ordinary Londoners are forced to suffer because of the capital's congestion charge.
Stiff sentence for motorway masturbator new
A Darwin man who burnished far-north Australia's reputation for outrageous behaviour during a road trip from Adelaide had his day in court on Tuesday.
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