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“Howard Roberts, who held the post for seven years”
“At the beginning of 2010 the HM Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC), brought in a team of outside experts after what it called 'consistent under-performance'.”
“In March the force received the lowest grades in three key areas in 'report cards' published by the HMIC.”
“overall crime in Nottinghamshire had fallen by 15% over the past year.”
“The piece, which depicts a harrowing scene from Dante's Inferno, has a recommended value of £10m.”
“The sculpture, which was once thought to be the work of Michaelangelo, will not be able to be exported until September.”
“If serious interest in purchasing the artwork is shown, it is likely to be extended until June 2011 to finalise any deal.”
“Pierino da Vinci died in Pisa in 1553 aged just 24, but had been considered a successor to the talent of his illustrious uncle.”
“The bronze sculpure, a rare work by Da Vinci's nephew, was made during the 16th Century, and was brought to England one hundred years later.”
“Almost 80 plates have been stolen in less than three months”
“Since the start of April thefts have been reported in Blaby, Harborough, Hinckley, Bosworth, Oadby and Wigston”
“This has become an increasing problem in recent months and now makes up the majority of thefts from vehicles. We believe most of them are being used by people who are trying to avoid paying for fuel - they are committing one theft to help …”
“Ricky Burlton, 20, from Enfield, died in the crash early on 4 June on the A10 exit slip road at Hoddesdon.”
“There are concerns for the future of the Victoria Lodge facility in Coldstream and its 14 occupants.”
“A new 12 tonne bridge has opened over a Derbyshire river as part of a £180,000 improvement project.”
“The 65ft (20m) bridge over the river Erewash at Trent Meadows in Long Eaton is part of the Trent Valley Greenway project.”
“It will allow cyclists, horse riders and disabled people to use the riverside. The bridge links up four miles (6.5km) of the Trent Valley Greenway pathway.”
“There is also a nostalgic element for us older people," he said, adding that he regularly meets nine other friends to swap stickers.”
“Twelve years, £190m - will it end here?”
“Bloody Sunday "changed the public language, placed armed struggle at the forefront of the agenda, and destroyed the credibility of the British state as peacekeeper in Northern Ireland"”
“Cumbersome and costly the Saville Report may be, but it's a necessary milestone on the road to peace.”
“the effects of the events it deals with have been even costlier in terms of disruption, destruction, and lives lost”
“A US coastguard, Paul Shultz, found the waterproof digital camera floating off the Florida coast.”
“eventually he worked out that the camera came all the way from a tropical island near Venezuela, over 1000 miles from Florida”
“As for the images of the turtle on the camera, it's thought that the creature accidentally recorded a five-minute video segment of itself as it brushed by the camera and hit it with its flippers.”
“on 8 June”
“confronted by three men”
“41-year-old”
“about 5ft 10in (1.77m) tall”
“A crime crackdown team which started patrolling rail firm Southern's network in April has made 52 arrests so far.”
“Southern said its Safer Travel Team had also issued 33 cautions, dealt with 14 trespassers, and handed out 1,677 anti-social behaviour warnings.”
“The team, which responds to incidents and deals with low-level crime, had also given out 516 penalty fares and 245 notices for fare evasion.”
“Martin Grier, Southern's head of security and revenue protection, said: "This is a remarkable impact considering the short time the team has been in existence."”
“Landslides and floods triggered by heavy rain have killed at least 53 people in south-east Bangladesh.”
“Five deaths have been reported from neighbouring Banderban district.”
“There were landslides in at least five places on a 46km-long [28-mile] hill.”
“Mr Chandra said it had been raining continuously for the past two days in the area.”
“four members of a family living in a single house along the hill were entombed by a landslide in the early morning”
“Tara figures claimed that, in the year to March 2010, a total of 47 women were referred to them, ranging in age from 18 to 45.”
“Eleven women were trafficked to and exploited in Scotland, in areas including Aberdeen and Stranraer.”
“Five women were trafficked for domestic slavery and a further 14 women who had not been trafficked were raped, sexually assaulted, prostituted, had suffered domestic abuse or been forced into marriage.”
“Detectives have linked the rapes of two 21-year-old women, who were both attacked as they walked in Fallowfield in the early hours.”
“The second victim will give an anonymous interview during Tuesday's Crimewatch programme.”
“In both cases the attacker is described as Asian, 6ft (1.82m) tall, aged in his early 20s, of slim build and was wearing dark clothing.”
“at about 0025 BST”
“Despite our continued efforts the man we believe could be responsible for both of these attacks is still at large.”
“Crimewatch will be shown on BBC One at 2100 BST.”
“Pte Ben Bainbridge, of Shiptonthorpe, East Yorkshire, was ambushed while on patrol with the Yorkshire Regiment in Helmand province on 7 January.”
“19-year-old”
“After eight operations the 19-year-old can walk around his home on crutches.”
“Within 48 hours he was being treated in intensive care at Birmingham's Selly Oak Hospital”
“I can only put 50% weight on it”
“then I took one step and that was me hit by a explosive”
“The national team is ranked a lowly 157 in the world.”
“Lord Saville presents his final report on the Bloody Sunday deaths 38 years ago.”
“President Obama's comparison of the impact of the ruptured oil well with the fallout after the 9/11 attacks”
“has left at least 170 dead.”
“Ethnic Uzbeks make up about 15% of Kyrgyzstan's 5.5 million people.”
“the worst the region has seen since Soviet times 20 years ago.”
“He shot Mrs Jackson, 68, in the street before turning the gun on her 67-year-old husband as he went to help her.”
“Isaac Dixon, 65, who was known as Spike, was shot while he was talking to a farmer next to a field in Haile.”
“About 500 people attended their joint funeral at St Michael and St Mary's Church in Egremont.”
“About 500 mourners attended Mr Dixon's funeral which also took place at St Michael and St Mary's Church.”
“More than 500 people attended a funeral for David Bird on Monday but the brothers' mother Mary Bird, 87, was in hospital and too frail to attend.”
“The '2015 Meso-American Health Initiative' will benefit Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua and Panama.”
“families plant a minimum of 10 trees whenever a girl child is born.”
“Nikah Kumari, 19, is all set to get married in early June.”
“he had planted 10 mango trees the day Nikah was born.”
“With a population of a little over 7,000, the village has more than 100,000 fully grown trees, mostly of mango and lychee.”
“Now, we've stopped doing traditional farming of wheat and paddy. We plant as many trees as we can since they are more profitable and dependable," said villager Shyam Sunder Singh.”
“There has not been a single incident yet of female foeticide or dowry death in our village," he says.”
“His cousin, Shankar Singh, planted 30 trees at the time of his daughter Sneha Surabhi's birth.”
“The village's oldest resident, Shatrughan Prasad Singh, 86, has planted around 500 mango and lychee trees in his 25 acres of land.”
“The whole world should emulate us and plant more trees," says their father Prabhu Dayal Singh.”
“Seoul asked the UN to take "timely and appropriate measures", blaming Pyongyang for March's sinking of the Cheonan”
“We hope that on the basis of this finding the Security Council will take timely and appropriate measures against North Korea”
“South Korea's argument that North Korean was behind the sinking was "extremely convincing"”
“there was "very little substance" to back up North Korea's claim that it was the victim”
“Seoul has suspended inter-Korean trade and Pyongyang responded by cutting all ties”
“The Saville Inquiry into the deaths of 13 people on Bloody Sunday has lasted 12 years and cost £195m, making it the longest and most expensive public inquiry in UK history.”
“About half the money spent on the inquiry has gone to lawyers.”
“It opened in April 1998 in Londonderry and heard evidence from more than 900 people between 2000 and 2005.”
“Thirteen people died after paratroopers opened fire during a civil rights march in Derry on 30 January 1972. A 14th person died some time later and his family believe the death was related to injuries he sustained on the day.”
“An inquiry was held in the weeks after the deaths, chaired by Lord Widgery, but lasted only a month.”
“The Saville Inquiry has been chaired by Lord Saville, 74, a high court judge.”
“Among the costs of the inquiry to be revealed in parliamentary debates or written answers are the £34m spent on IT and £26m on accommodation, including hire of venues and office space.”
“About a dozen other individual lawyers received more than £1m.”
“Unionist victims campaigner Willie Frazer, founder of Families Acting for Innocent Relatives, disputes the cost of the inquiry, claiming it is actually more than £300m - and says it is a waste of money.”
“I personally don't think that I am the only individual in Northern Ireland who feels the spending of £200m on enriching lawyers rather than dealing in a different way with the needs of the victims is a fairly ineffective way of dealing wit…”
“The trust compares the Saville Inquiry costs with the £173m Manchester City spent on new players in 2009.”
“It is regrettable that the families of those killed on Bloody Sunday have had to wait so long both for an inquiry and for the report of this inquiry.”
“The banana wars came to an end last December, when the EU agreed to cut import tariffs imposed on Latin American bananas from 176 euros (£146) to 114 euros per tonne over a transition period of eight years.”
“As part of the FTAs, the EU promised a further lowering of tariffs on bananas from 114 euros to 75 euros per tonne over a period of 10 years.”
“According to Mr Ledesma, one in seven Ecuadorians relies on the banana industry as a main source of income.”
“Everyone is watching closely for the results of a visit by an EU delegation to Quito on 14-16 June.”
“"We're trying to reach a very fair agreement which would take into account the imbalance between the European Union and Latin America," Borja says. "A free market is not advisable. We want this agreement to take into account the developmen…”
“Ecuador is the world's top banana exporter”
“the European Union is the largest banana market”
“In 1996, Ecuador led other Latin American countries in complaining to the World Trade Organization about EU tariffs on bananas - which resulted in the so-called banana wars, the longest trade dispute in history.”
“This would lead to job losses and as a result people would abandon the countryside.”
