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“Channel 4 is screening the 11th - and last - series of the reality show after it was axed last year.”
“a BBC reporter on site estimated the crowd to be nearer 2,000”
“The event was made all-ticket and alcohol-free after amid safety concerns when some fans clashed with officials at last Saturday's match”
“Some 8,000 free tickets had been made available for the match”
“President Yahya Jammeh seized power in a coup in 1994”
“He has since won three elections, amid opposition allegations of harassment.”
“The taxi driver killed 12 people and wounded 11 others during a 45-mile rampage across west Cumbria on 2 June, before turning the gun on himself.”
“Bird's funeral, conducted by Mr Marshall, curate of St Michael's Church in Lamplugh, was attended by about 100 people.”
“Some 299 UK personnel have been killed since the conflict began”
“Thousands of people were affected by the gas leak in December 1984”
“He said the ministers are looking into the number of people affected and the number of compensation claims which have been accepted so far.”
“there could be as many as 37,000 urban foxes in the country.”
“The Plas Newydd hay meadow guided walks will be held at 1230 BST and 1430 BST from Saturday 19 June until Wednesday 23 June.”
“At least 33 tons of debris, including three cars and a boat, were removed from the property and garden areas.”
“Mr Lyttle was evicted from his home in 2006 "for his own safety"”
“He died in early June in a flat where he was rehoused.”
“A 79-year-old who tunnelled under his east London home has died...”
“After being rehoused in a flat in St Lawrence Court in de Beauvoir Estate in June 2009...”
“A manhole cover was blown off with the force of the blast”
“The company recently launched a campaign called "What not to flush" to encourage the public to think about what they pour into sewers.”
“It said items such as baby wipes were really bad for causing blockages.”
“But engineers have also dealt with substances including paint, cat litter, syringes and other chemicals.”
“It said items such as baby wipes were really bad for causing blockages. But engineers have also dealt with substances including paint, cat litter, syringes and other chemicals.”
“It reported that between 2003 and 2007, over 1,500 people died while being held by authorities.”
“The distinctive rare birds returned to Cornwall in 2001 after a 50-year absence.”
“Paradise Park in Hayle currently has four breeding pairs of adult choughs.”
“We have four pairs of choughs nesting, and two have been very successful rearing a total of five chicks between them.”
“However, the female in nest three had not been successful in rearing chicks in the past and when she broke two of her eggs we decided to take the last one away.”
“The first was awarded almost the same number of years ago to the Worshipful Company of Weavers in 1155.”
“The information technology industry was granted a rare Royal Charter at a full-blown ceremony at St Paul's Cathedral on Thursday.”
“There are now more than 100 such organisations in the City of London”
“Pointing out that the technology that enabled William Tyndall to print the bible in English was undeniably a good thing, he asked whether Twitter - which was used to convey the service - was a blessing or something that chained people to t…”
“The couriers drove their lorries to The Hook of Holland and then on to ferries bound for Harwich.”
“Aung San Suu Kyi's supporters mark her 65th birthday”
“Ms Suu Kyi has spent most of the last two decades in some form of detention.”
“Her continued detention, and that of more than 2,100 other political prisoners in Burma, contravenes international human rights law”
“Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991”
“The National League for Democracy won Burma's last elections in 1990”
“The leaders of the world's 20 leading economies are due to meet in Toronto on 26 June”
“The leaders of the world's 20 leading economies are due to meet in Toronto on 26 June. Mr Obama said the priority of the meeting should be "to safeguard and strengthen the recovery"”
“The G20, which includes both developed and developing economies such as Russia, China and Argentina”
“Emergency services in Colombia are continuing to search for more than 50 miners who have been trapped underground for almost three days.”
“The men were cut off at a depth of almost 2km (1.2 miles) after an explosion ripped through a coal mine in the country's north-west.”
“So far, 19 bodies have been recovered, many of them badly burned.”
“Rescue workers at the San Fernando mine in Amaga, Antioquia province, said temperatures of up to 40C in the mine tunnels and debris from the explosion had been hampering their work.”
“He said the chances of finding anyone alive were very slim.”
“He said an examination of the recovered bodies showed the miners had died as a result of the shock wave which followed the blast.”
“On Friday, 1,000 people attended a funeral service in Amaga for nine of the miners whose bodies had been recovered.”
“He said the mine would not reopen until the investigation into the causes of the blast had been completed.”
“He said records showed the mine did not have a proper ventilation system or gas-detection devices, AP reported.”
“According to the US Energy Information Administration, it was the fourth-largest coal exporter in the world in 2008.”
“A methane gas explosion killed eight workers in a mine last year, also in Antioquia province.”
“In February 2007, a gas explosion at a mine in north-eastern Colombia killed more than 30 workers.”
“After the blast at the makeshift La Preciosa site, about 580km (360 miles) north of the capital, Bogota, authorities said they would step up their supervision of Colombia's mines.”
“Mining minister Hernan Martinez said records showed the mine did not have a proper ventilation system or gas-detection devices, AP reported.”
“Warm weather has re-ignited the practice of tombstoning at Plymouth Hoe in Devon where people as young as 12 have been seen diving.”
“Youngsters jumping off a 100ft wall into the sea at Plymouth have been warned they are dicing with death.”
“In February, the council removed a 60ft (18m) platform on Plymouth Hoe which had been closed and caged in 2003.”
“Every year a number of people in the UK are killed or injured plunging into open water, a practice known as tombstoning.”
“It is believed 42 Iraqi men were flown back to Baghdad in a forced return.”
“The UN refugee agency, the UNHCR, said that all 14 of the deportees whom its lawyers in Baghdad spoke to alleged that they had been beaten and forced to get on the plane in London.”
“Six of the Iraqis who were met in person had 'fresh bruises that indicated mistreatment could have occurred', the UNHCR spokesman in Geneva, Andrej Mahecic, said.”
“The flight, apparently taking off from a secure area of London's Heathrow Airport late on Wednesday, landed at around 0600 (0300GMT) at Baghdad airport on Thursday”
“The deportation was the third of its kind carried out by the UKBA since last October.”
“Britain was eager to avoid the embarrassment that occurred when the first deportation flight happened last October, when 33 out of 44 forcible returnees on board were sent back to the UK.”
“Mr Abdullah, who had lived in England for eight years.”
“Although there has been a decrease in the level of violence throughout Iraq the situation remains highly dangerous with a continuing high threat of terrorism throughout the country (except in the Kurdistan Region).”
“We are not in favour of forced or compulsory returns because they are against humanitarian law, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari told the BBC.”
“Ms Lane Fox said there are ten million adults in the UK who have never used the internet.”
“Built in 1797, the Ditherington Flax Mill was the world's first iron-framed building and has been derelict for more than 20 years.”
“The Ditherington Flax Mill was used to process flax for 100 years before being converted into a maltings.”
“Planning and listed building applications were due to be submitted in July and it was hoped funding will be secured in time to allow work to start next year.”
“Plans have been discussed to develop the English Heritage-owned site to provide employment, housing, social and leisure opportunities.”
“The plans will be on show at the Flax Mill on Friday and Saturday.”
“Portuguese novelist Jose Saramago, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1998, has died at the age of 87, his publisher has announced.”
“One of his best-known novels is Blindness, written in 1995, which tells the story of a country whose entire population lose their sight.”
“He had been due to appear at Edinburgh's book festival in August.”
“Saramago moved to Lanzarote in the early 1990s after opposition from Portugal's right-wing government to his controversial work The Gospel According to Jesus Christ.”
“His first novel, published in 1947, was the commercially unsuccessful Terra do Pecado - or Country of Sin - a tale of peasants in crisis.”
“He returned to fiction later in his life and first won international acclaim with 1983 fantasy Memorial do Convento - published in English in 1988 as Baltasar and Blimunda.”
“Saramago's final book, Caim - with the English title Cain - was published at the end of last year.”
“Earlier in the year, El Cuaderno, or The Notebook - a compilation of blog entries including criticism of Tony Blair and the Pope - was published.”
“Speaking to BBC News last June, Saramago said: "I may have three, four years more to live, maybe less."”
“William Barnard, 30, of Wesley Place, Stapleford, inflicted 56 wounds on John McGrath in July 2009. His wife Mabel was badly injured in the attack.”
“It's clear there had been numerous opportunities to send [William Barnard] to hospital and it is a matter of grave concern that these opportunities were missed repeatedly.”
“Cleaner Mr Janeczek, 39, suffered serious internal injuries in the original attack in Alexander Drive, Aberdeen, last July.”
“The Dartford Crossing carries about 150,000 vehicles a day”
“Whiteshill and Ruscombe parish council paid £1,000 for 15 "20 is Plenty" signs last August due to road safety fears.”
“But residents have been told they are not official signs and only two can stay up outside the local primary school as an advisory limit.”
“The official speed limit in the village is 30mph.”
“We have agreed to investigate the possibility of introducing a 20mph limit for the whole of the Whiteshill area, subject to the guidelines being approved by our scrutiny committee.”
“Brian Mackay, from Edinburgh, had agreed to process the cash for a Nigerian woman he met in an internet chatroom between May and July 2008.”
“One in five Ethiopian children left school within the first year”
“Students in Ghana, for example, are on average taught for just 76 days out of the 197 days in the school year.”
“The report also said 14 of DFID's 22 priority countries were on track to achieve its enrolment goal by 2015.”
“It also said progress on achieving equal numbers of boys and girls enrolled had been good, with eight countries already having achieved the goal.”
“DFID needs to do more and to take a tougher, clearer stance on the importance of cost and service performance information, and in particular indicators of education delivery and attainment if it is to make sure its contributions achieve th…”
“Value for money, transparency and effectiveness remain my top priorities.”
“Most initiations are either done in June-July or November-December.”
“the film would show Hitler's 'love' for India”
