Environmental campaigners have lost a legal battle to limit the life-span of a landfill site near their homes in Wrexham.

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Is three minutes the limit of his attention span?

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Once derided by critics as an example of society's increasingly gnat-like attention span, the site's 140-character limit has in many cases inspired users to be as witty, insightful or informative as they can be in as few words as possible.

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