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“my father had died six months previously.”
“I went on to adopt another son, who's 18 now.”
“The 329 council-owned flats in Penarth Heights - known as the Billybanks - in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan are in a prime location, overlooking Cardiff Bay.”
“In a survey of 5,000 people for the Beautiful Britain magazine, it was voted the ugliest unique eyesore in Wales, and the eighth worst in Britain.”
“The decision to redevelop the site - a thriving community in the '60s, '70s and '80s - was taken in 1998 and the homes were largely emptied by 2002.”
“most residents were relocated from the 17-acre site”
“four families refused to leave”
“It is understood negotiations with two tenants who have refused to move from their properties on the estate are continuing.”
“I was extremely pleased to have the biggest vote in the whole country.”
“nearly 40 years”
“April 1972”
“1992”
“April 1998”
“March 2010”
“tens of millions then hundreds of millions of pounds”
“30 January 1972”
“March 1972”
“published on Tuesday”
“it took him 12 years to make his findings.”
“He took each victim, not just the 14 that were shot dead, but the others who were wounded.”
“The Saville Report is expected to run to 10 volumes containing 5,000 pages.”
“The media will have embargoed access one hour before publication at 1530 BST on Tuesday.”
“The Kyrgyz government on Sunday extended a state of emergency to cover the entire southern Jalalabad region, as ethnic clashes spread there from neighbouring Osh.”
“Details of the review are expected to be announced in the Budget on 22 June”
“The OBR was formed in May 2010 to make an independent assessment of the public finances and the economy.”
“is favourite to win the 20 June second round of the presidential election”
“when he will face Green Party candidate Antanas Mockus”
“The government considered denying North Korea visas to attend the 1966 World Cup, official documents have revealed.”
“At the time the UK did not officially recognise the state that had proclaimed itself 'The Democratic People's Republic of Korea' back in 1948.”
“The North Koreans will probably object very strongly if they are prevented from playing their National anthem, displaying their National flag etc, when the other fifteen countries taking part in the finals are all permitted to do so.”
“over these past seven months”
“Residents and visitors are being asked for their views at a two-day exhibition at Felixstowe Town Hall on 16/17 July.”
“pump more than 2,000 tonnes of silt”
“2,000 tonnes of silt in the lake, which has accumulated over the last 60 years”
“Lord Elis-Thomas said he saw "no dis-benefit" to the referendum being held in October or November 2011.”
“The Labour-Plaid Cymru coalition government agreement says the referendum should take place before the assembly election next May.”
“But he said he had ruled out this year, and February and March were "no-go areas".”
“He had also accepted guidance from his own legal advisers which effectively ruled out a referendum for later this year. "Plaid Cymru exists, like all political parties, because we've been elected by the people of Wales," he said. "The impo…”
“Lord Elis-Thomas added that he was determined that the date for the referendum should be set before May's election. "This assembly, which made the request in the first place, should before it finishes its work and dissolves, agree the timi…”
“He added that a "maximum turnout" was needed.”
“She has already said that the timing was "very tight" for a referendum this autumn, although the First Minister, Carwyn Jones, had written to her demanding such a vote.”
“Thirteen people died in Londonderry on Bloody Sunday”
“The report into the killings of 13 people in 1972 is due to be published on Tuesday”
“The report took 12 years to compile, at a cost of almost £200m”
“We waited 12 years for this enormous report to come forward. "It's 5,000 pages long, it has cost £192m and I just think we owe it to all those who are very closely involved not to keep this speculation up.”
“It's 5,000 pages long, it has cost £192m”
“there are still hundreds of families who haven't got near an inquiry”
“the number of new affordable homes built this year could slump by 65%.”
“Funding cuts and changes to the planning system could see as few as 20,390 homes built, the group said.”
“the housing minister warned last week that around 150 social housing projects were under threat because of a £610m "black hole" in the government's finances, the group said.”
“With £780m in unfunded spending commitments made by the previous administration, I have instructed the Homes and Communities Agency to conduct a review. And we have made £170 million available to build 4,000 otherwise unfunded social rent…”
“Shepway councillors approved the plans for a runway extension and a new terminal building in March.”
“A decision on whether Lydd Airport in Kent should be allowed to expand has been delayed again, until 30 June.”
“The Labour government had called for 500,000 houses to be built across the region over the next 16 years.”
“The Campaign to Protect Rural England estimated the government's housing targets in the East Midlands - up to 2026 - was heading towards half a million new homes.”
“The annual target is currently 21,500.”
“It says there are already between 300,000 to 400,000 people in the East Midlands wanting a new home.”
“From 5 July, council parking attendants will make regular patrols of parking areas and be able to issue penalty charge notices.”
“The council said 17 people were being recruited as civil parking enforcement officers.”
“But since Kyrgyzstan's popular uprising in April in which former president Kurmanbek Bakiyev was ousted, security has deteriorated.”
“The NVA, whose ultimate aim is independence for Flanders, Belgium's northern half, took 27 of 150 seats.”
“However, the Socialist party from French-speaking Wallonia also gained seats - giving it an expected total of 26.”
“Support for his party surged, increasing its representation in the lower house of parliament by 19 seats, according to near-complete results.”
“Some analysts believe the next coalition will take in as many as eight parties, the BBC's Dominic Hughes in Brussels reports.”
“The party's leader, Elio Di Rupo, could therefore become the first French-speaking prime minister since 1974.”
“Much of public and political life in Belgium is dominated by bitter debates around language and the allocation of public resources. Government aid to poorer Wallonia, home to four million French speakers, has caused resentment among Belgiu…”
“the Scottish party won 41 out of 59 seats.”
“more than 500 people at the Royal Concert Hall”
“The successor to Gordon Brown will be chosen by the party in September.”
“The new leader is chosen by an electoral college system made up of three sections”
“with the results from each of the three parts of the electoral college making up a third of the final result.”
“David Miliband, his brother Ed, Andy Burnham and Ed Balls all said Scots Labour leader Iain Gray should have a seat on Labour's ruling body, the NEC.”
“where the Scottish party won 41 out of 59 seats.”
“as the contenders debated in front of more than 500 people at the Royal Concert Hall”
“The new leader is chosen by an electoral college system made up of three sections - Labour MPs and MEPs, party members and members of affiliated unions and other affiliated organisations.”
“People are ballotted individually in each of the three sections, with the results from each of the three parts of the electoral college making up a third of the final result.”
“In the election for leader of Labour in the Scottish Parliament, Scottish Labour MPs and MEPs have the same voting and nomination rights as Labour MSPs in the electoral college.”
“Yet in the contest for leader of the Labour Party, only MPs and MEPs have nomination and voting rights in that part of the electoral college.”
“so that by the early 1950s, there were just five MPs left.”
“It was said, and it was completely true, that the Liberal parliamentary party could hold their meetings in the backseat of a taxi.”
“He used the presence of roughly three dozen Liberal MPs within the government as a means of sharing responsibility for the cuts the government had to introduce to balance the budget.”
“Mr Samuel and two-thirds of Liberal MPs lost their seats”
“and the party plunged into 20 years of near total irrelevance.”
“within days”
“over the next few days”
“two Palestinian factions”
“hundreds of millions of dollars in aid”
“a 22-member forum representing Arab nations”
“will quit in the autumn, before the end of his term in April 2011”
“has been in his post since 2005”
“I have left the job for the sake of my health and sanity. I was given the option of doing another three months with IPSA [Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, external] but I felt I was just too drained to carry on,”
“Last month, it agreed to pay cash advances of £4,000 to cover office and travel costs after MPs complained they did not have sufficient resources to cover bills for office equipment, stationery, transport and hotel accommodation.”
“Other MPs have been arguing the £110,000 annual staffing budget is too tight now that MPs are are being asked to pay pensions contributions personally rather than out of a central fund.”
“Labour MP Paul Farrelly wrote to Mr Gooding two weeks ago, describing the new system as 'prehistoric, amateurish, self-defeating and bureaucracy gone mad'”
“Last week Afghan intelligence chief Amrullah Saleh resigned, saying he had become an obstacle to plans to talk to the Taliban.”
“But that's less than half of us.”
“I think government opponents got a lot quieter after the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, 11 February 2010, because their protests didn't amount to much.”
“He said he believed at least half of Iranians don't like or hate the supreme leader and are not religious.”
“He said breaking up the banks would be "tough to do, but it's got to be done".”
“Its recommendations will be delivered to 11 Downing Street, with the hope that they will shape government's policy on financial reform.”
