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Baublegate

You only need to sneeze these days for a hashtag to start trending on Twitter, but some are more worthy of note than others.

You only need to sneeze these days for a hashtag to start trending on Twitter, but some are more worthy of note than others.

In Chester, #baublegate took off after the defeated candidate in the race to become Conservative group leader at the Local Government Association, Cllr Mike Jones, reportedly accused his Labour-run council of adding red baubles to the city's traditional white lights as a deliberate political gesture.

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