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“which can reach 130 decibels”
“The collection has been described by Sotheby's auctioneers as "arguably the most important group of works by Tagore ever to appear at an auction". The 12 paintings by Tagore were sold by the Dartington Hall Trust charity.”
“Tagore's Figure in Yellow sold three times above its £40,000 asking price”
“It follows the £2.4m ($3.5m) sale on Friday at Christie's auctioneers of a painting by top Indian artist Syed Haider Raza, which set a record for a modern Indian work.”
“Portrait of a Woman sold for over £313,000 ($461,000) at Sotheby's”
“"We have a successful track record of selling works by Tagore and in fact set an auction record for a work by him when his Death Scene sold for £120,000 in May 2008," said Sotheby's.”
“Steve Valentine, 30, went missing from a rehabilitation ward at a secure hospital in Cambridgeshire without his medication in October 2008.”
“However the Thames Valley Safer Roads Partnership said more speeding drivers chose an awareness course instead of a fine and penalty points - a first since the course became an option in 2003.”
“We think they're a waste of time and don't necessarily improve road safety.”
“Dr Sean Kingsley is an archaeological consultant for Odyssey Marine Exploration, who found the shipwreck in the English Channel in April 2008.”
“The site's future is the subject of a public consultation ending on 30 June.”
“More than 1,000 sailors drowned when the British flagship, the predecessor to Lord Nelson's Victory, sank in a storm in 1744.”
“The finding of the site by the US-based exploration company in April 2008 was nearly 100 km (62 miles) from where the ship was historically believed to have been wrecked, off the infamous Casquets near Alderney in the Channel Islands.”
“In September, after artefacts, including two cannons, were brought up from the seabed the wreck was confirmed as that of Admiral Sir John Balchin's HMS Victory.”
“Dr Kingsley said discussions of the future of the site depended on three factors; how important the site was, to what degree it was at risk and what benefit it could be to society.”
“We're finding on HMS Victory, and actually 43% of the sites [in the English Channel], that they have been heavily impacted from the offshore fishing industry so it's a bit of race against time.”
“Dr Kingsley said that everybody was quite shocked when the wreck was found 100km away from its supposed location.”
“we're finding on HMS Victory, and actually 43% of the sites [in the English Channel], that they have been heavily impacted from the offshore fishing industry so it's a bit of race against time.”
“In many ways it is the early Georgian Titanic, you have to bear in mind that in 1744 it was the biggest ship in the world.”
“The Department for Transport awarded Devon County Council (DCC) the grant, one of 35 repair schemes nationwide.”
“Gun owner Derrick Bird shot dead 12 people and injured 11 more in Cumbria”
“Firearms licences last for five years.”
“An agreement to share information has been agreed in principle and the technical details are now being decided upon”
“just one mile away from the Aeronautica site”
“two restored trams”
“The plan would also see visitors taken to and from the site on one of the two restored trams that used to run through the city.”
“Cable was found dead at his home in Llwydcoed on Monday, 7 June, aged 40.”
“The service at St Elvan's Church in Aberdare, Cynon Valley, next Monday will be a private one. [...] ahead of the funeral at 1200 BST.”
“Cable, who left Stereophonics in 2003, went on to forge a career as a TV and radio presenter and also set up a new band called Killing For Company.”
“Uzbekistan says it is shutting its border with Kyrgyzstan and will not be able to accept more refugees fleeing the ethnic conflict in southern Kyrgyzstan.”
“The Red Cross says more than 80,000 refugees have already crossed and up to 15,000 are still massing in the border areas.”
“My 85-year-old husband was left behind. I have five children and I cannot find any of them here, I am the only soul from our family sitting here.”
“My next-door neighbour in Stalin neighbourhood was shot dead. They came in APCs (armoured personnel carriers), those who tried to stop them were shot dead on the spot. We barely made our way out of the neighbourhood, carrying our babies, t…”
“I saw with my own eyes a five-year-old girl lying dead.”
“In the maternity ward in Osh, we were told that the Kyrgyz were coming. Everybody had to run away, even those who were in labour.”
“More than a quarter of a million people have fled ethnic fighting in southern Kyrgyzstan, the UN refugee agency says.”
“The UNHCR is mounting an emergency airlift of supplies for an estimated 75,000 ethnic Uzbeks who have fled to neighbouring Uzbekistan.”
“The first of six cargo planes is scheduled to fly from Dubai to Andijan airport in Uzbekistan early on Wednesday carrying 800 lightweight tents.”
“About 200,000 people have been displaced inside the country, while another 75,000 have fled to Uzbekistan, according to the UN.”
“Under the deal brokered in May, Iran agreed to deposit 1,200kg of low-enriched uranium with Turkey, in return for reactor fuel.”
“The UN Security Council voted by 12 votes to two in favour of the sanctions.”
“Also on Tuesday, an Iranian foreign ministry spokesman said Tehran would protest against the sanctions resolution by sending separate letters to all 15 members of the UN Security Council, the AFP news agency reports.”
“It picked up a posting showing a picture of a gun being held above a scrawled note, which read "tomorrow - last day of school" and went on to mention bullies and "leaving this world".”
“The ban means they cannot drink in, or buy alcohol from, any of the 25 pubs and clubs involved in the town's Bar U scheme.”
“Forty-six people are currently banned from Darwen's pubs and clubs under the scheme, which has been running for 11 years.”
“will hear testimony from four expert witnesses at the session in Montreal.”
“as a 20-year-old institution”
“citing 2035 as the date by which Himalayan glaciers may have melted away.”
“the UN resolution that established the body in 1988 calling on it to”
“chaired the organisation between 1997 and 2002.”
“will conclude its deliberations by the end of August.”
“formally presented at an IPCC meeting in South Korea in October”
“about 3,000 have been nominated to take part in AR5”
“Foreign Minister Micheal Martin said an investigation had proved that eight Irish passports used in the operation were forgeries.”
“Six of the eight fake passports used the numbers of existing Irish passport holders, while the other two contained invented numbers conforming to the Irish format, the foreign ministry said.”
“The UK and Australia have already expelled Israeli nationals over the forgeries.”
“A standard vuvuzela is 65cm long but some can be up to a metre long.”
“The typical pitch of a vuvuzela is said to be B flat below middle C.”
“My kids have been on the phone and they want two. I've got two in my bag already”
“More than 36,000 people have so far visited a new exhibition of work by the artists known as the Glasgow Boys.”
“Paintings by the group have been on show at Glasgow's Kelvingrove Art Gallery since April.”
“The Glasgow Boys caused a sensation when they held their first major art show in 1885.”
“Most of them were just villagers' children and schoolmates.”
“After the sittings, his mother made them glasses of milk and cucumber sandwiches with white bread, which seemingly they had never had anything like that before.”
“39% cannot help but brag about their children's achievements.”
“Trevor Cox, president of the Institute of Acoustics, told the BBC News website's Magazine that vuvuzelas were tuned to a similar frequency to speech tones.”
“It would sound really horrible to notch these out - if one coincides with the vowel sound e, you won't be able to hear the -es in the commentary. It would sound unnatural.”
“New care homes had been planned for Fort William, Grantown-on-Spey, Inverness, Muir of Ord and Tain.”
“Travel group SEStran has won more than £850,000 to roll the scheme out from Edinburgh into East Lothian, the Borders and Fife.”
“The £2.3m project will let passengers see how long they have to wait for any given service while standing at a stop.”
“RTPI will give travellers a real boost and put them back in charge of their journeys, through access to real-time information”
“SEStran has been very fortunate to succeed in acquiring such substantial funding from the EU.”
“Naheeda Bi said she was kidnapped on a visit to Pakistan 10 years ago”
“she was kidnapped by two men at Islamabad Airport in April 2000”
“held in a dark windowless room for at least two months”
“over the course of the 10 years she said she was moved between four different camps”
“Three weeks ago she was suddenly freed”
“Ms Bi's brother contacted them in 2007 and indicated that he was trying to trace his sister who had been missing since 2000”
“FCO consular staff made contact with the family on May 29 and provided appropriate consular assistance to the family and to Ms Bi on her release”
“I heard two girls had been killed and I got a horrible sinking feeling.”
“Six survivors flew back to the UK on Saturday.”
“With the development of the pre-salt reservoir, we believe Brazil will gain its place among the top 10 oil producers in the world. We have already even been formally invited to join Opec [Organization of Petroleum-Exporting Countries],”
“The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) said prices in April were 10.1% higher than a year ago.”
“UK house prices rose by another 0.4% in April, putting the cost of the average UK property at £207,516.”
“Annual house price growth was 10.9% in England, 2.2% in Scotland and 11.3% in Wales.”
“But in Northern Ireland prices fell by 8.9% on average in the year to April.”
“We've delivered a petition of 45,000 signatures to the Department of Health and Human Services, asking them for a more co-ordinated and systematic response to this issue by creating an office of maternal health.”
“Commercial station NME Radio will no longer be accessible on digital radio or Sky, Virgin and Freesat TV networks, it has been announced.”
“IPC said the NME website attracts more than 4.2 million users every month.”
“the announcement comes after DX Media, the company which launched the service in 2008, terminated its contract with station owners IPC Media.”
“But the station, which won a Sony Radio Academy Award in May, will still be broadcast online.”
“The site was identified more than five years ago”
“TW identified the South Oxfordshire site more than five years ago and the inquiry follows a public consultation in 2007.”
“water supplies in the area were already stretched and the reservoir would help ensure demand is met over the next 25 years.”
“The al-Qaeda leader is the world's most-wanted man, with the US offering a reward of up to $25m (£17m) for information leading to his capture.”
“In April a Greek man who worked in one of the few museums in the area was released by the Taliban after being held by them for eight months.”
“Bin Laden has evaded a huge US effort to capture him since the attacks on the US of 11 September 2001 for which his al-Qaeda network is blamed.”
“Up to 200 million Chinese workers have migrated from the countryside to the cities in recent years.”
“In the past five months, 10 Chinese employees of the IT manufacturer Foxconn have committed suicide.”
“Three more have attempted to take their own lives.”
