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Osbourne slams Marie Claire 'Fatties' blog

Los Angeles -- British television personality Sharon Osbourne says she is outraged by a Marie Claire blog post about overweight people showing affection.

Julie Chen, Osbourne's co-host on "The Talk," read an excerpt from Maura Kelly's blog post titled, "Should 'Fatties' Get a Room? (Even on TV?)" during Wednesday's edition of the talk show.

U.K. police chiefs wrote 102-word sentence

London -- A British group that lobbies for clear use of language has slammed a 102-word sentence in a letter by the country's police chiefs as "gobbledygook."

The Plain English Campaign said the sentence -- composed by the Association of Chief Police Officers in response to the British government's Green Paper on policing -- stands a good chance of winning the campaign's Golden Bull award in December, the Daily Mail reported Thursday.

"This sort of business gobbledygook is pretty much inexcusable now," said Marie Claire, a spokeswoman for the Plain English Campaign. "What excuse is there for this single sentence?"