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Police warned the incidents were being treated as the more serious offence of causing danger to road users rather than being classed as criminal damage.

While unemployment stands at almost 1.5 million, the number of people classed as economically inactive - not employed or actively looking for work - has jumped to more than nine million.

A man who tried to send 500 bikes to a charity in Africa had them refused at a Scottish port after they were classed as waste.

China is classed as a developing country in the context of UN climate talks, despite being the world’s second biggest economy, the result of a peculiarity in the COP rules.

Those not classed as obese can be given the drug if they are overweight and have cardiovascular disease.