{"id":681,"date":"2006-06-22T13:11:46","date_gmt":"2006-06-22T12:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/06\/22\/not-all-good-news\/"},"modified":"2006-06-22T13:11:46","modified_gmt":"2006-06-22T12:11:46","slug":"not-all-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/06\/22\/not-all-good-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Not all good news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/doctorvee.co.uk\/2006\/06\/21\/kids-who-order-world-cup-tickets-for-%c2%a3410-from-a-scam-website-then-get-a-proper-world-cup-trip-funded-by-the-government-can-just-fuck-right-off\/\">Duncan is angry<\/a> that some poor little <em>Oliver Twist<\/em> like urchins with barely a limb between them <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/5101974.stm\">have been packed off<\/a> to the World Cup after their school organised a <a href=\"http:\/\/devilskitchen.blogspot.com\/2006\/06\/children-diddled-by-touts.html\">particularly expensive<\/a> school trip only for the money to go to some dodgy touts and no tickets to turn up. 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