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Jennifer Tracey | 09:35 UK time, Tuesday, 21 April 2009

Your News - you send it, but we read it out.

Each week listeners send us single sentences explaining their news. They write about sickness and health, being richer or poorer, lives getting better and worse. It's Your News.

Leave your sentence of news as a comment below or email it.

For inspiration, here's last week's bulletin - as read by Radio 4's Neil Nunes...

The police are dropping a prosecution for speeding because they've accepted that I needed to get my son to A&E and no ambulance had been offered by his doctor's surgery. Who says the police have become out of touch with their public?

Had electricity bill for £670 for a 2 bedroom flat occupied by myself and daughter.

My Granny is having her bottom blacked, the first time in over three years. She's only 15, but she looks older; narrowboats need drydocking more frequently.

I have just completed my sixteen-year-old daughter's prom dress, for when she leaves school in June, and wondering why I bothered as she is going back there to the sixth form.

Watching TV, a loud explosion, and a young man and a disintegrated motorbike all over the road.

I had to transport a load of medieval French soldiers up the M5 and help get them out of sight by heaving them into Hilary's loft!

Worked all week, and last, teachers' holidays are not all they're cracked up to be!

70 weeks out of work, 500 job applications, 3 interviews, no job yet. Another bad week.

I'm still waiting for the redundancy money I should have received 10 days ago... and there is never anyone available to answer my query when I ring because they all seem to be part-timers who don't work today.

My husband confirmed he'll be away again next week, I don't think it's an affair, I think it's just fear of keeping his job. He has obviously forgotten Friday is our Wedding anniversary.

A couple of weeks ago you read out my sentence about waiting to see if my father-in-law has cancer. He doesn't. Hurrah!

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Comments

1. At 5:20pm on 21 Apr 2009, i_amluanshya wrote:
gordon brown can talk at normal speed, as well as V E R Y S LO W L Y as if we are all as dim as he(the scotsman! just cause its his £'s he is talking about

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2. At 2:58pm on 24 Apr 2009, Sarniajoy wrote:
My husband had a major epileptic seizure last night, the epilepsy caused by a brain haemorrhage in 2006, I am more distressed by his seizures than he is!

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3. At 7:24pm on 24 Apr 2009, funnyJoedunn wrote:
Today, I re-potted my miniature rose after a week of revamping the pots outside my flat.

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4. At 11:18pm on 24 Apr 2009, Frances O wrote:
I was brave today; tried to free a bemused bee trapped on a bus window.

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5. At 12:36pm on 25 Apr 2009, wildkaybee wrote:
Thought for the day.

I am glad I am british
Iam glad I am free,
But I wish I was a dog,
and Gordon Brown was a tree !!

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6. At 4:00pm on 27 Apr 2009, niceginantonic wrote:
Just about to go and re-colour my mom's hair blonde. It's her 89th birthday on Bank Holiday Monday and she doesn't want to look old!

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7. At 5:45pm on 30 Apr 2009, build-happy wrote:
I keep on being woken up early, every morning by dogs outside my window and none of them seem to belong to me.

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8. At 3:31pm on 07 May 2009, blyth224 wrote:
Rumours are flying about possible redundancies in the office and I am having touble sleeping at night as I am only a contractor.

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9. At 11:43am on 08 May 2009, MrsEffingham wrote:
I saw Jack and Vera yesterday.

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10. At 1:17pm on 08 May 2009, PaulattheRocks wrote:
Thanks to 5 above,

I am glad I am british
I am glad I am free,
but sometime I wonder
how free that I be.

With taxes and duties
and VAT too,
With DNA samples and CCTV
All I need now is some privacy.

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11. At 00:17am on 09 May 2009, margoinlondon wrote:
I saw an unusual sight in SELondon on the way home - a young man trying to save a snake which had landed on the pavement from a high railway siding - repeatedly scooping it up with a magazine and trying to throw it back into the undergrowth

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12. At 10:25pm on 10 May 2009, harps1h wrote:
I am 45 and sitting a second year university exam tomorrrow. why am I doing this? How much torture have I become to my wife and two teenage girls?

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13. At 7:12pm on 13 May 2009, therealsusan wrote:
Today I was there when a 49 year old man thanking a 24 year old 'youth' for saving his life when he slipped on the ice and broke his ankle - it was an isolated lane, in the small hours, and he was near to hypothermia when the young man and his friends came across him collapsed on the road and called for help.

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14. At 6:11pm on 14 May 2009, allonskerry wrote:
I was neither here nor there on the Autoroute Deux Mers.

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15. At 6:28pm on 14 May 2009, ipmnutter wrote:
So I rang my daughter to tell her I had sent my ipm poll question, she asked what I had sent and I said about the first world countries competing to improve the conditions of each third world country, she replied, Oh Mom you are still a Marxist idealist dont you realise the first world do not want such competion as it threatens their capitalism, she still loves me though.

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16. At 6:37pm on 14 May 2009, theonlysallypage wrote:
Spent all week trying, without joy, to get coverage for my daughter's book, Love Pink; she's only 16, giving 70% of profit to breast cancer care, she got Judi Dench, Joanna Lumley, Sarah Brown amongst others to tell her their favourite pink things, she published it from our kitchen table, got it stocked in Waterstone's and even got David Cameron into a pink union jack tie at the house of commons - what more do the press want?!

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17. At 7:25pm on 14 May 2009, alipop54 wrote:
my son's bike has been stolen and rapidly replaced thanks to e-bay, at great expense (thanks to my weaselly contents insurers), my microwave is fritzed, the boss is sulking after a home truths session....the hole in the wall almost laughed out loud when i tried to use it....BUT ... i have 3 goldfinches visiting my garden so its not all bad

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18. At 09:25am on 15 May 2009, shed53 wrote:
My 82-year young Mum just went digital, so last night we watched Autumn in Yellowstone in HD at her house - fabulous!

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19. At 09:49am on 15 May 2009, peterv6153 wrote:
My daughter had a full term still born baby last August, she has not spoken to my wife and I since then, why is she taking out the death of her baby, our granddaughter, on us?

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20. At 6:08pm on 15 May 2009, smartiepantscaroline wrote:
I left my spectacles in Superdrug

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21. At 11:29pm on 11 Oct 2009, splendidchuckles0001 wrote:
Recently found that my past girlfriend and love of my life has recently split up from her rotten husband; what joy and sadness - but mostly joy!

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22. At 5:33pm on 22 Oct 2009, gymbow wrote:
I heard that Gordon Brown wrote to both parties in the postal dispute with an excellent solution which would have been acceptable to everyone involved, however the letters got lost in the post !!

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23. At 07:54am on 26 Oct 2009, dudeboxergirl wrote:
I've just become 60 and had my first wet dream for 30 years. In the dream I had my left arm caught in a jacket sleeve!

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