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Why facts won’t demolish the conspiracy theories
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Paranormal activity on YouTube
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Talk therapy for the depressed ‘could be wasting millions’
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The evolution of a conspiracy theory
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Creationism taught in 40 UK schools
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Virgin1 to air US ‘Monster Hunter’ show
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‘Fenomen’ success escapes the curse of Uri Geller
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Professor spreads the word on joy of text
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Excavation of pub’s ‘haunted’ cellar proves fruitless
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Superman in court on driving offences
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‘Bleeding’ picture of Jesus draws crowds at Mumbai
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UK spiritualist jailed for raping girls
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Police say UFO was just the Moon
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Roman Catholic priest moves closer to sainthood
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Witches brave the fires of scepticism
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Science is vital, but humanities have a relevance beyond measure
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Springsteen fortune teller passes away
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Man breaks silence over North Wales UFO
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The weird world of mystic mogs and death-sensing dogs
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Mark Twain’s Amazing Hoax that Deceived the World
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Fighting the evolution war
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In physics we trust
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Traditional Chinese medicine could be a remedy for failure at Olympics
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Guy Kennaway: My battle with psoriasis
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Climate of suspicion
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Susan Blackmore: Memes and “temes”

Match.com debuts horoscope-based dating
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Fortune teller’s luck changes
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Run your car on Water

Cellular Telephones and Cancer: How Should Science Respond?
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Trouble and Rife
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So does acupuncture work?
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Germans aghast at ‘Holy Disneyland’ plan
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The Chemistry of Auschwitz
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Scariest challenge yet for Yvette
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Half-assed troofer death threat against me…
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Gender and “Sorcery” Contributing To Spread Of HIV In Papua New Guinea
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Hypnotherapy for bedwetting
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The funfair is no place to teach religion
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Flunk This Movie!
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China, India and climate change
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The free-knowledge fundamentalist
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Richard Dawkins: Podcast
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Darwin still under attack after 200 years
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Pig’s blood ‘cult’ attack on Lord’s family chapel
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Is there anybody there?
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DOUBTS ON ‘THERAPY’ FOR UNDER-5S
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Acorah gets in the spirit at the Regent
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Help Iraqi women
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Sceptics in the Pub on True Tube
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SCEPTICS IN THE PUB

The brain is not immortal – it is very much a part of nature
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Christian Theologians Prepare for Extraterrestrial Life
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Pseudoscience: A Threat to Our Environment
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BBC caught in row over payment to academic who denies gas chambers
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Paedophile jailed after message from psychic
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A party where Friday the 13th is just another day
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‘Homeopathy works!’
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CRISP AD BEAMED TO ALIENS
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New evidence in hunt for UFOs
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It’s official, you can’t pop corn with your cell phone
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The exploitation of Aids
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Report debunks myths surrounding Generation Y in consulting sector
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Ghostly goings on in Cheddar
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Lavenham TV medium with rare insight
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Richard Dawkins: Podcast
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Ghosts detected at historic city pub
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‘Brangelina turn to nursery psychic’
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Prison papers reveal Myra Hindley petitioned Government for hypnosis
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‘Miracle’ made my leg grow
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BBC pays expenses to disgraced Holocaust denier
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The myth of Top Gear
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The miracle ingredient in chinese food
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Chinese Drug Market Jumped 19% in 2007 to US$50 Bln
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Baby burned in new toxic sofa scare
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1million days lost to strikes
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Dying with dignity
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Sunbathing Naked by Guy Kennaway
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Where’s Nelson?
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Plenty of glitz and glam but where was the spirit?
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The Sheldrake phenomenon
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Oil shortage a myth, says industry insider
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Homeopathy Awareness Week 2008 (14-21st June)
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Chrysotherapy
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UN overstated Aids risk
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Turning tiger bones to an alcoholic “health tonic”
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SciAm Science Talk
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Yoko Ono’s legal battle over John Lennon track fails
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E-Mail After the Rapture
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Thanks to Phil McKerracher for the tip-off.

An Inconvenient Truth: Opera in tune with the political climate
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Rosehip powder to reduce the pain of osteoarthritis
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Why statins should not be prescribed routinely
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Are you looking for a conspiracy theory? Just ask Jim Corr
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Fielding and Beattie to launch The Paranormal Channel
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Is this a ghost…or someone going to the toilet?
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How a potted plant could cure your toxic house
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DNA explodes Greek myth about women
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Stonehenge May Have Been a Burial Ground
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Scientists rally against creationist ’superstition’
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Mary Whitehouse is the real monster
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Sales of ‘brain foods’ soar as school exam season gets under way
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I’m possessed by evil spirits – and so are you!
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Out the Dore
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The Jewish key to Henry Kissinger
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UFO blows up over Vietnam
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A call for WiFi to be banned in New Mexico
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Schools, testing and myths of intelligence
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Bear cheek
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Exxon to cut funding to climate change denial groups
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Is there anybody out there, Mr Fort?
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Psychic brings her powers to the city
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I remember how a psychic predicted my life
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Princess Diana gift to psychic to be auctioned
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Diana’s Death Eludes Psychics
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Evangelical leader unhappy with focus on ‘eccentric fringe’
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Dangerous naivety
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Oxford £1.25 billion fundraising drive
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System under stress
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Are body-conscious Brits putting their health at risk?
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GHOST-HUNTERS IN CELLS FRIGHT NIGHT
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Base chief breaks silence on UFO mystery
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Vitamin survey is food for thought
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$22 Million Creation Museum Expanding
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“[Tony Stockwell's] accuracy will snap even the hardest sceptic out of their cynicism.”
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Pet psychic to open new superstore
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Englishman’s rewriting of Scots history ‘as false as the idea they gave us kilts’
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Unzipped: how to give the perfect blow job, by Nicci Talbot
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Derren brown: an evening of wonders
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Clairvoyants could face jail under new law
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Science and religion intersecting on Aliens, Einstein
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Science Weekly for May 26: Trick or Treatment?
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Criticism over ‘miracle’ jatropha
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From the right to free expression to a duty to offend
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Spirited away: Meet the psychics with an uncertain future
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Complementary views
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Attack Of The Unsinkable Rubber Ducks
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Close encounters of the alien kind
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Did China’s pandas know the quake was coming?
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Boffins hail ‘miracle’ shoe
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The carbon catcher
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Scientists Discover “Frogmander,” Americans Keep Teaching Creationism
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Allergic to WiFi? Group fights Internet hotspots in Santa Fe
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Winehouse moves out of haunted house in Camden
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Can science and God ever get along?
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Boots accused of selling quack medicines
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Science or literature? Surely what we need is both
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Dawkins, Einstein, and God
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UFOs in my Barnet
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Psychics and skeptics coming to Vegas
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Alternative Medicine: Only the dead are safe to try it
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Eczema: Homeopathy treats it as well as – if not better than – conventional medicine
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Lisa Jardine on life and death
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Teachers still preaching creationism in US classrooms
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Fight for the Life Of the Mind
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Does this picture show a ghost at Chirk Castle?
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The sinister images caught on camera
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Brr! The climate cools for reality-deniers
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‘You could be a psychic’
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Animal psychic helps rescue trapped pet
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This Morning rapped over Cilla
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Here endeth the lesson?
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Smashing Pseudoscience with Skeptoid
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Job: Executive Director, Homeopathy Action Trust
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Spook squad on the trail of ghosts in Aberdeen
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Meet the five witches of Northwich
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
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Psychic pet detective helps rescue Jack Russell
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The Neurological Basis For God
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‘Ghost girl’ is blamed for spate of crashes
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Mobile phone danger to unborn child: Use could cause behavioural problems
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UFOs do exist - we’ve seen them
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The next miracle worker cream? Olay!
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US prez race front and center at astrology convention
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Frank’s perfect pad was written in the stars
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Religious leaders attack PM’s endorsement of embryo bill
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Putting science into the dismal science
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‘Do our children need to take malaria tablets?’
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Curse of the crystal skulls: The real life story of the new Indiana Jones movie
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Churches need ‘Kingdom DNA’, says Bishop of Bristol
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Podcast of the week: Robin Ince’s Utter Shambles
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Police issue scam alert
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Spiritualists gather for awards
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