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10 of the biggest news stories we broke in 2016

Poke Staff. Updated December 23rd, 2016

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2016 has been a momentous year for news events – and thanks to our hard work and incredibly high journalistic standards we brought you many exclusive stories over the past year. Here are ten of the biggest and most important from the last 12 months.

1. HMRC launch ‘honesty box’ to let multinational corporations pay what they think is fair
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2. UKIP in turmoil as the Babadook becomes surprise new favourite in leadership race
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3. “I have had enough” says festering bucket of shit that ghostwrites for Katie Hopkins
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4. Company launches range of scented candles to help angry men on the internet relax a bit
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5. One bedroom south London sinkhole sells for £980,000 within hours of opening
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6. Idris Elba in talks to be the next Prime Minister
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7. London venue infamous for excessive drink and drug use to be closed permanently
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8. Introducing the limited edition Rupert Murdoch & Jerry Hall commemorative sick bucket
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9. Leak from the UK Government: their “Are You A Foreigner?” form
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10. Fisher Price unveil “My First Bunker” for children deeply concerned about 2017
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  1. A reporter brilliantly called out Donald Trump over his claims Iran bombed their own school and had the entire internet cheering
  2. Andrew Tate dismissed Louis Theroux as ‘irrelevant’ and Theroux’s A++ comeback was simply magnificent
  3. Nigel Farage wasn’t happy when his party’s relentless reverse ferreting over Iran was pointed out to him and it spoke volumes about the man and is party
  4. You don’t have to like Keir Starmer to appreciate his A++ takedown of Kemi Badenoch’s Iran war reverse ferret
  5. Erika Kirk has been appointed as a ‘special advisor’ to the US Air Force and fact checkers everywhere just turned in their resignations

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  1. ‘What weird things did your parents do that outsiders would find peculiar?’ – 22 stories that will make your own family feel a bit less odd
  2. Ted Cruz called Tucker Carlson the most ‘dangerous demagogue’ in America and it somehow made every side of the political aisle angry
  3. Donald Trump ‘spent $5 billion’ on the first two days of its war on Iran and Americans simply can’t get their head round it
  4. Karoline Leavitt was asked what evidence Trump had for Iran owning Tomahawk missiles and people weren’t entirely convinced – 14 damning comebacks
  5. You don’t have to like Keir Starmer to appreciate his A++ takedown of Kemi Badenoch’s Iran war reverse ferret
  6. Erika Kirk has been appointed as a ‘special advisor’ to the US Air Force and fact checkers everywhere just turned in their resignations
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