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President Obama took the bold step of returning his Nobel Peace prize after he failed in his promise to close Guantanamo Bay within his first twelve months of office. Senior sources in the White House indicated that The President felt it would be wrong to keep the award after he failed to cross the first hurdle.

The panel that had awarded him the prize for 'the things that he might do' rather than on his actual achievements were still hopeful that he would deliver at least one of his bold promises. They told him to hold onto the award for now just in case he actually delivered. Late into last night they were busy looking through all of the contenders for this year's award desperately trying to find a suitable winner who had actually achieved something positive to be interviewed.

Persistent rumours indicate that for the third year in a row Ed Balls has nominated Gordon Brown for the Nobel Peace Prize. We put this suggestion to one of the panel who burst out laughing.