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Wednesday, 21st March 2007

The shaving foam has been scraped off the floors of TV studios and the vomit cleared up from student pub crawls. Yes, Red Nose Day is over for another year, and after an excruciating few hours enjoying the wit of Noel Edmonds the nation can reflect that more than £40 million has been raised to help, er ...you know, those starving children in whatitsland and, well, I’m sure I remember something about people suffering from that horrible disease in the Congo, whatever it was, which makes you turn a bright shade of whatever....

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