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Following concerns raised by Prime Minister David Cameron that neighbours across Britain were being put off holding the traditional knees-ups due to council red tape, a further nine have won bids in the city.

PARTY TIME AS MORE STREETS LAY ON A BASH

Then there are wedding receptions, year-round knees-ups with cake and embarrassing dancing with someone's uncle.

Lucy Sweet: Forget a season, life is just one big party for me

But then, the DUP does not do knees-ups. Which is a great pity, because I suspect Arlene Foster, a refugee from the Ulster Unionist Party, has both brains and a sense of humour.

Politicians are comical but not very amusing; CIARAN MCKEOWN The Piper of Peace

Figures released through a Freedom of Information request show workers at the watchdog downed PS1,100 worth of alcohol and soft drinks at two festive knees-ups in December.

OFGEM PARTY BILL FURY

You don't have to go all the way to South East Asia to experience these knees-ups, which have a reputation for being a bit wild.

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Now neighbours have told how Ian Davison - being held on suspicion of committing offences under the Terrorism Act 2000 - could regularly be found spinning records at latenight knees-ups around his former home in the Catchgate area, near Annfield Plain.

Neighbours tell of shock at local DJ's terrorism arrest; WHITE SUPREMACIST SUSPECT AND HIS SON HELD

But now even knees-ups for branch staff paid for out their own pockets have been axed.

HBOS STAFF 'PAID' NOT TO GO ON XMAS PARTIES; EXCLUSIVE Bailed-out bosses to refund deposits

Turns out a backing track the pearly pair had recorded back in 1975 for a Labi Siffre tune had been sampled by the controversial rapper for his breakthrough hit My Name Is - hilariously resulting in the baseball cap and bling brigade inadvertently getting their groove on to the two-bearded, braces-twanging Londoners whose comedy knees-ups would've previously sent them screaming.

'The Beatles were good blokes, not like rock stars at all... unlike the Rolling Stones

PARTY SEASON kicked in at Ryton this week with the players and backroom staff all enjoying their annual Christmas knees-ups.

Sometimes your face doesn't fit... Andy Turner

It is rumoured the Post has a few tales of its own following a bit of a booze up at OneTen, the Colmore Row watering hole, and certainly other media knees-ups produced a flood of great stories.

CULTURE VULTURE: Milk of human kindness

It seems a good idea and we look forward to seeing more frequent "knees-ups" at the weekly gatherings in village and church halls throughout the district.

Balancing age with activity

ESIWN Fawr Dolgellau has long established itself as one of Wales' leading cultural knees-ups, and now it has spawned its first offspring.

Event returns to its roots