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“The wreckage at Ashford Gill Head, near Pateley Bridge, was spotted by an RAF pilot on Wednesday. He then called the emergency services. The RAF search and rescue crew later discovered the wreckage was from an accident in 1969. The Piper…”
“An Air Accidents Investigation Branch investigation into the crash concluded in 1971 that the pilot, 22-year-old Anthony Teare, was "inexperienced" and continued his flight "too long into deteriorating weather and collided with high ground…”
“Mr Teare had been flying from Newcastle Airport to Leeds Bradford Airport.”
“Dennis Scott was declared dead at the scene on Saturday.”
“Dennis Scott, 80, of Woodley”
“In 15 years I have never seen anything like this before.”
“A Safety Camera Partnership spokesman said some of the county's 26 fixed camera boxes would be taken away in the next few weeks... Partnership manager Dick Bowen said nine boxes that contained speed cameras on a rotating basis will be remo…”
“He said 175,000 speeding drivers had attended courses instead of having penalty points on their licences.”
“Figures from the multi-agency partnership show that the number of people injured on roads in Somerset has dropped from 2,594 in 2002 to 2,019 in 2009.”
“The number of deaths and serious injuries has fallen from 351 to 304 in the same period, the spokesman added.”
“A Safety Camera Partnership spokesman said some of the county's 26 fixed camera boxes would be taken away in the next few weeks.”
“There will be 17 speed camera sites left in the county.”
“The Merseyside team is one of 45 taking part in the challenge”
“They are driving 1,700 miles (2,736km) in ten days”
“They will also run 10km (6.2 miles) a day”
“and compete in a series of physical challenges against 44 other teams”
“Paul Gordon, aged 28, from Kensington, said”
“Tom Wood of 4 Mercian Regiment, 25, from Runcorn”
“and Michael Hill, a former Royal Engineer, 28, from Oldham.”
“The men [...] will stop off en route to pay their respects at World War II battlefields, including those in Normandy, and Arnhem in Holland.”
“A 64-page tribute handwritten by Mark Twain to his daughter after she died aged 24 has sold at Sotheby's in New York for $242,500 (£164,000).”
“Author Twain - real name Samuel L Clemens - wrote A Family Sketch shortly after the 1896 death of Olive, who contracted spinal meningitis.”
“The blast injured 43 people and homes and businesses were destroyed.”
“The explosion, which could be heard 125 miles away, happened when a massive vapour cloud ignited after 250,000 litres of petrol leaked from a tank, the court heard.”
“When the largest fire in peacetime Europe tore through the Buncefield site on that Sunday morning in December 2005...”
“Contractors arrived on site on Thursday to begin four weeks of unscheduled works to protect the supports.”
“The end section of the pier, which was built in 2008, will be closed to the public while the work is carried out.”
“The council said the pier will remain open but there will be a 12 to 15ft (3.6 to 4.5m) fenced off area stretching across the end.”
“He was awarded the MBE in 2000 for his part in England's 4-2 victory over West Germany on 30 July in 1966.”
“A Dorset tank museum is to receive a £1.5m donation from the Kuwaiti government to preserve its collection.”
“The donation will be presented by the Kuwaiti ambassador during this year's Tankfest over the 26-27 June weekend.”
“Katie Hughes, 21, was stabbed to death at a party in Bangor”
“The International Society for New Institutional Economics (ISNIE) conference is currently taking place at the University of Stirling.”
“About 200 economists are at the event, which was opened by First Minister Alex Salmond.”
“The conference, now in its 14th year, is usually held in either Europe or North America.”
“Two Nobel Prize winners are taking part in a global economics conference being held in the UK for the first time.”
“Two winners of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics - Professor Elinor Ostrom from Indiana University and Professor Oliver E Williamson from the University of California, Berkeley - will address delegates.”
“Alex Salmond opened the conference at Stirling University”
“He added: "Our proud economic past and present means that we are ideally placed to host this world class event and attract an audience of distinguished international economists."”
“Gen Marcel Bigeard, 94, died on Friday, his wife told news agency Agence France-Presse.”
“In 2000 he caused controversy in France by telling a newspaper that torture was a "necessary evil" in Algeria.”
“The Algerian independence war was fought between 1954 and 1962.”
“He was then sent to Algeria where he led the "irregular" counter‑insurgency campaign against the National Liberation Front (FLN) during the 1957 Battle of Algiers.”
“It follows a government announcement that £10m of funding for a new visitor centre on the site was being cut.”
“English Heritage said it planned to find the rest of the money from elsewhere and will make a statement on the project's future on 30 June.”
“English Heritage wants to create a £25m facility 1.5 miles (2.4km) away from the stones and to divert the nearby A344.”
“The previous government had pledged £10m.”
“The remaining £15m was due to come from English Heritage, the Heritage Lottery Fund and other private sources.”
“The current visitor centre was put up in 1968 as a temporary measure.”
“People living near Longton Park said they heard shots being fired at about 0530 BST on 3 June.”
“Numbers of the breed have increased significantly in recent years on the back of its special eating qualities...”
“Russia this month agreed to back a fourth round of UN sanctions against Tehran, following months of US-led diplomacy.”
“The fresh EU sanctions approved in Brussels on Thursday include a ban on investments and technology transfers to Iran's key oil and gas industry - measures that go further than the latest UN sanctions.”
“He said Russia "did not agree" to any separate sanctions when it backed a joint UN resolution last week.”
“"A couple of years ago, that would have been impossible," Mr Medvedev said.”
“"We didn't agree to this when we discussed the joint resolution at the UN," Mr Medvedev told the Wall Street Journal.”
“"A couple of years ago, that would have been impossible," Mr Medvedev said. "We should act collectively. If we do, we will have the desired result."”
“Zakir Naik, a 44-year-old television preacher, had been due to give a series of lectures in London and Sheffield.”
“Mr Naik was due to address events at Sheffield Arena on 25 June and Wembley Arena on 26 June.”
“No entry: Theresa May has used exclusion power for first time”
“He said Mr Naik had been holding talks in the UK for 15 years and the decision to bar his entry was disappointing.”
“Bracknell Forest Council received three complaints about an advertisement in a local newspaper for mystery shoppers.”
“This is basically a bank scam.”
“The event at Imphal Barracks happens only every 20 to 25 years and saw the four battalions together for the first time since being formed in 2006.”
“Our colonels presentation parade will start with the seven sets of old colours being marched off parade. Then four sets of new colours - one for each of the Battalions - will be marched on.”
“Poland's presidential election campaign has been extraordinary in that it was triggered by a plane crash that killed President Lech Kaczynski and dozens of senior state officials in April.”
“Jaroslaw Kaczynski, a 61-year-old former prime minister who lives with his mother and once confessed to not having a bank account, has gone from being one of the country's least trusted politicians before the crash to the second most suppo…”
“Civic Platform now heads the government and its candidate, the 58-year-old parliamentary speaker Bronislaw Komorowski, was the clear favourite to become the country's next president before the crash.”
“All opinion polls still put him in the lead, although one saw Mr Kaczynski narrow the gap to just four percentage points.”
“It has to an extent eliminated the extreme nastiness which characterised previous campaigns,”
“At the moment, opinion polls suggest neither of the front-runners will secure a majority, and a second round run-off will be required on 4 July, which, according to all the polls, Mr Komorowski, is expected to win.”
“He ends his campaign on Friday, his birthday and the first without his twin, with a visit to his brother's tomb in the Wawel Cathedral in Krakow.”
“Spielberg's film is due to be released in August 2011.”
“His last cinema release was Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull two years ago.”
“The stage adaptation was originally put on at London's National Theatre in 2007 and is currently on at the New London Theatre in the West End.”
“It was announced earlier this year that it would transfer to Broadway in November.”
“In South Africa, at the last match in Rustenberg where we drew against the Americans, we actually saw three of our own flags in the stadium which was tremendous, it was lovely to see that.”
“I am delighted at the way our security team and Hampshire Constabulary have foiled a possible escape attempt.”
“In particular there was agreement on the need to step up international efforts on reducing maternal mortality and that this should be a key theme of next week's G8 summit in Canada”
“Friday's meeting came 24 hours after Mr Cameron's first EU summit as prime minister”
“on the number 62 in Plymouth, Devon”
“The alleged incident happened on Tuesday”
“Jamie Clark, 23, was one of 12 people who were shot dead in Cumbria on 2 June.”
“just half an hour before Mr Clark was shot dead.”
“Susan Hughes, 57,”
“71-year-old Kenneth Fishburn”
“21-year-old Miss Jarman”
“Michael Pike, 64,”
“66-year-old Jane Robinson”
“Bird also wounded 11 people as he drove across a 45-mile area from Whitehaven to Boot, before killing himself.”
“by 2005, 90% had disappeared.”
“30 'vole hotspots'”
“the remaining two populations in Devon still very small,”
“The genocide claimed the lives of about 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus.”
“Lifeboat teams in north and south Wales have rescued five people in recent days during a series of separate beach incidents.”
“The first incident on Tuesday involved a woman in her 60s who tripped while walking the cliff path and dislocated her shoulder. She was taken to hospital.”
“In the second incident, a man from Langland Bay required urgent medical assistance after collapsing. He was taken to Morriston Hospital, Swansea, by ambulance.”
“On Thursday evening two Slovakian men were rescued after being blown a mile and a half out to sea.”
“Members of Criccieth lifeboat rescued the pair before the dinghy floated out into the Irish Sea.”
“Earlier in the day an RAF rescue helicopter based at Valley in Anglesey helped two coastguard rescue teams retrieve a young climber from the cliffs 170ft (51m) up at South Stack, near Holyhead.”
