Spain to get exciting new monarch unlike some people

SPAIN is to get a coronation and some new stamps and post boxes, unlike some other countries with old monarchs.

Spaniards thanked King Juan Carlos for abdicating in favour of son Felipe, insisting it was so good to have a sovereign who actually knew when they had overstayed their welcome.

Luis Gonzales, from Seville, said: “We’ll get a day off, there will be lots of parties and, crucially, we’ll get to recalibrate our celebrity culture around someone different, instead of the same familiar old face, week after week after week.

“It’s so refreshing, isn’t it?”

Jane Thompson, from Stevenage, added: “It would be nice to look forward to a weird, opinionated speech on Christmas Day. If only someone wasn’t being so incredibly rude.”

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Britain's soulless and generic high streets under threat

BRITAIN’S rows of tedious and depressing chain shops are under threat from online retailers.

Massive shop owners claim the high street should be treated like an endangered tiger because of the invention of websites that you don’t have to drag your arse around on a Saturday.

Tom Booker of Watford said: “Puzzlingly I always felt that the high street should be grateful to me for buying stuff in it, as opposed to having my sympathy.

“But apparently I should have more compassion for highly profitable multinational conglomerates like New Look. Perhaps I should do a sponsored swim.

Chef Carolyn Ryan said: “It’s terrifying to think that unless we act fast, our children will never know a world of mobile phone shops, Greggs and Clinton Cards.”

Mary Portas, speaking from beneath her haircut, said: If the high street collapses then Britains towns will no longer be the completely homogenous parade of brand names that we grew up with.

Please, go to River Island and buy a glittery top now. Before its too late.

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