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A married pair of pilots have been turned into a laughing stock at their airport - by Little Britain's Matt Lucas and David Walliams. Debi and Jonathan Peskett fly together just like suspicious wife Jackie Trent and her cheating husband Simon in BBC comedy Come Fly With Me. The pilot Mr and Mrs have become the butt of jokes since Lucas and Walliams mocked the squabbling 30,00ft high marriage in their new series.
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They have roamed the moor of the West Country for thousands of years - loved by locals and visitors alike. But as our shocking pictures reveal, the ponies of Bodmin are today suffering appalling neglect. In the past few weeks, the rugged Cornish landscape has been littered with the grisly bodies of decomposed animals and pitiful ponies so badly emaciated they have no hope of surviving. ...read
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