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This Unholy Land
PEOPLE IN THE UK ARE MORE LIKELY TO BELIEVE IN GHOSTS THAN A "CREATOR"
Also, Christians are apparently more likely to believe in aliens than the devil

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This weekend, a YouGov survey of almost 12,000 people who consider themselves to be Christians – and 39,000 people from the general population – showed that people in the UK are more likely to believe in ghosts than a god-like "Creator".

"British people as a whole are most likely to believe in fate (36%) and alien life (30%)", apparently, with the overall figure of people reporting to have no religion at just under half the country's population.

Devastatingly for both Dynamo and Derren Brown, Christians and all other Brits could agree on overwhelmingly not believing in magic.

Puss In Box
A WOMAN SENT HER CAT FROM CORNWALL TO WEST SUSSEX IN THE POST
The Siamese cat survived eight days in a box of DVDs

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A woman accidentally mailed her Siamese cat from Cornwall to West Sussex in a box of DVDs, leaving it to spend eight days in the post.

When the person who'd ordered the DVDs opened the box, they contacted the RPSCA, who then collected the cat and took her to a vet. "This person was somewhat startled as they were not expecting to receive a free cat along with their order of DVDs," read a blogpost on the Grove Lodge Veterinary Group site.

The owners, who'd put up "lost cat" posters in the neighbourhood, were last meant to be picking the cat up over the weekend.

Brexit Blunder
THE UKIP-BACKED BREXIT CAMPAIGN EMPLOYS EU MIGRANTS
Leave.EU was accused of hypocrisy for employing non-Brits in its call centre

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The Leave.EU campaign was accused of hypocrisy after people learned that the pro-Brexit office had hired four EU migrants on its call centre team.

"For Arron Banks to run a campaign based on division and demonisation while employing EU citizens in his call centre, is the height of hypocrisy," said Neil Kinnock, a leading backer of the Britain Stronger in Europe campaign.

In response, Arron Banks – who's pumping his money into Leave.EU – said that the staff member he'd only just learned was Slovakian wasn't part of the problem. It would be wrong to discriminate against EU migrants applying for jobs who were "legally in the country at the moment".

We've a whole three more delightful months of this back and forth.

Pakistan Taliban Bomb
A SUICIDE BOMBER IN PAKISTAN KILLED AT LEAST 70 PEOPLE
A Taliban faction claimed responsibility for the attack, targeting Christians

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A faction of the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for a deadly suicide bomb attack at a park in Lahore that killed at least 70 people, most of them women and children.

More than 300 people were reported injured after the attack, with the Taliban faction claiming that Christians were their target.

"We must bring the killers of our innocent brothers, sisters, and children to justice and will never allow these savage inhumans to over-run our life and liberty," a military spokesman tweeted on Sunday.

The Pakistani government coordinated raids in three cities from Sunday evening, with a provincial state of emergency enacted.