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“His funeral will be held at St Mary's Church, Gosforth, at 1145 BST.”
“A service for Kevin Commons, who was the Bird family's solicitor, will be held at St John's Church in Workington, at 1215 BST on Friday.”
“The 60-year-old was found dead in the driveway of his house in Frizington Road, Frizington.”
“on Wednesday a minute's silence will be observed at noon at seven locations.”
“The population of a small Shetland island has soared after the first year of a regeneration project, it has been revealed. Inhabitants of Fetlar have risen from 48 to 70 - an increase of 45%.”
“The aim is to reach 100 within the next nine years.”
“Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) welcomed the news.”
“Sustaining our more fragile communities is a vital part of what Highlands and Islands Enterprise does, and achieving economic progress in the fragile areas of Shetland is one of our core ambitions.”
“A social enterprise set up to focus on regeneration, Fetlar Development Ltd (FDL), is pursuing a range of projects to regenerate the island. Current plans include developing housing and renewable energy potential on the island, as well as …”
“The success of population growth to date has certainly inspired us to continue to develop our regeneration projects with increased vigour.”
“Four recycling centres are to close in Lancashire, it has been announced.”
“The council said there were still 19 centres around the county”
“The average person goes to one of these centres between one and three times a year.”
“The fact that they might have to go an extra three, four or even five miles to a site is not going to lead them to fly-tip.”
“It also plans to build two new state-of-the-art waste treatment plants at Thornton and Leyland.”
“The council is also looking at possible sites for a new tip in the Lancaster district to replace centres at Salt Ayre, Lancaster, and Keerbridge, Carnforth.”
“Before World War II, Poland was home to about 3.5 million Jews, the largest Jewish community in Europe.”
“Some 90% of them were murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust.”
“Today there are only a few thousand Jews left in Poland to look after the country's 1,400-or-so Jewish cemeteries, most of which are overgrown or in ruins.”
“A dozen prisoners from Grodzisk Mazowiecki outside Warsaw, carrying wooden rakes and metal trowels, walk the short distance to the town's cemetery in the pouring rain.”
“Gravestones, some dating back to the 1700s, stick out of the grass at precarious angles or lie broken on the ground.”
“It is hard to imagine now, but at one time 85% of the town's population was Jewish and the graveyard was seven times larger.”
“Dressed in his striped prayer shawl, Poland's chief rabbi, Michael Schudrich, is answering questions from about 50 green-uniformed prisoners in Siedlce, in eastern Poland.”
“Discussions like this have only been possible in Poland for the last 20 years because under communism and its doctrine of atheism, talking about anything Jewish was taboo.”
“This interest in trying to preserve cemeteries today is part of a larger picture of Poles understanding now the role that Jews played for nearly 1,000 years in this country.”
“Jewish music was a part of Polish culture for hundreds of years and after the Second World War it was destroyed and we try to revive this tradition.”
“Anti-Semitic incidents are on the decline in Poland, but the country has a reputation for being hostile to Jews.”
“Rabbi Michael Schudrich has been touring Polish prisons”
“But at the same time, more Poles are honoured by Israel for saving Jews during the war than any other nationality.”
“It took only minutes for the Chinook to reach the battlefield but the firing was so intense the crew had to circle for nearly an hour before they could land.”
“You can actually see, at the top here is the night vision goggle rail, where we normally hang our night vision goggles. And you can see the gouge where the bullet actually struck. It then grooved up and tore through the skin of the helmet …”
“This is probably one of the most outstanding acts of bravery and valour that I've seen in an aircraft and a helicopter outside Special Forces, that's for sure.”
“I remind him that he has been put forward for one of the highest awards for bravery.”
“It comes nine months after a report into the death of Brandon.”
“The review was carried out by Professor Peter Wilson, a former chief constable of Fife Constabulary.”
“Work on a new cemetery and crematorium in Worcestershire costing more than £4m is set to start this week.”
“The 23-acre Minster Road site between Stourport and Kidderminster will include full burial and crematorium facilities and a chapel of rest.”
“Work is due to be completed by next spring.”
“We've identified over the last five, six years, that eventually the cemetery in Kidderminster will become full.”
“So therefore we've been working over the last few years to get partners on board and a sustainable and deliverable project that is now coming to fruition.”
“Hispanics, or Latinos, are responsible for about half of US population growth since 2000.”
“These children - who now make up half of the overall Latino population”
“the median age is 14”
“about half of them are undocumented.”
“her dad is lucky enough to be working seven days a week, but her uncle who had been working for 30 years at a factory is now only working two days, with five children to support.”
“This year's US census is expected to confirm that Hispanics are now the largest minority in the country”
“Hispanics, or Latinos, are responsible for about half of US population growth since 2000”
“In three states with high Latino populations, whites are already a minority”
“it's widely predicted they will be a minority in the overall population by mid-century”
“And about half of them are undocumented”
“one in three mothers in the UK rely on grandparents to provide childcare.”
“from April next year, grandparents in the UK would be able to claim National Insurance credits for the care they provided.”
“seven out of 10 grandparent carers thought they should be paid through tax credits or childcare vouchers for childcare.”
“Nearly half of all grandparents who looked after their grandchildren said they would opt for flexible working if they were allowed.”
“53% of grandparents aged between 45 and 54 thought grandparents should be given time off work when a grandchild is born.”
“These working-class women, who have attempted to juggle their family and their careers for decades, now find that grandmotherhood offers no relief.”
“American Foulbrood disease, which can devastate colonies by killing larvae, has been found in two Jersey hives.”
“infection can be spread by moving infected hives and equipment or from contaminated honey, which was the cause of the last outbreak in Guernsey about 40 years ago.”
“We have not been given any reason by Libyan authorities for why we should leave the country”
“the UNHCR, which has been working in Libya since 1991”
“UNHCR is the asylum system in Libya”
“About 9,000 refugees - mainly Palestinians, Iraqis, Sudanese and Somalis - had been registered in Libya, according to UNHCR figures”
“In addition, there are 3,700 asylum seekers, mainly from Eritrea”
“Monday provided the most recent example, the UN says - a vessel containing women and children got into distress but was only rescued 24 hours after the UN had sounded the alarm”
“The team's first display was due to be on 16 June to allow time for a replacement pilot to be fully trained. But it will appear at Sunday's show after performing at the Queen's Birthday Flypast in London on Saturday.”
“Organisers of the RAF Cosford event said it would be the first opportunity for the public to meet Flt Lt Kirsty Moore, the first woman to fly as a member of the Red Arrows.”
“But it will appear at Sunday's show after performing at the Queen's Birthday Flypast in London on Saturday.”
“We are delighted that we are able to start our display programme a week earlier than we previously planned.”
“Gucci was taken after reaching five stone (31.7kg) in weight”
“Steve Reuther has died from cancer at the age of 58.”
“His family said he passed away at his home in Santa Monica, California, on Saturday.”
“Reuther is survived by a daughter, his mother, two brothers and a sister.”
“The ball, to celebrate the group's 20th anniversary, is due to be held on the outskirts of Porthtowan for up to 4,000 people on 3 September.”
“If granted, the ball would go on all night, ending at 0600 BST on 4 September.”
“Nearly 70 villagers attended a public meeting on Monday night to raise their concerns with SAS.”
“That will then culminate in a weekend where there will be 11 hours of music.”
“I had 20 animals housed in stables which were within 300yds (274m) of the proposed site”
“Rachael Slack and her 23-month-old son Auden were stabbed to death by her ex-partner, Andrew Cairns, in Holbrook last Wednesday.”
“The Russian reports said the sum stolen was more than 60,000 roubles (£1,300).”
“About 6,000 Polish zloty (£2,000) was withdrawn on the cards, according to Polish investigators.”
“The Polish government plane crashed on 10 April, killing President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others.”
“Ms Lewandowska said other withdrawals took place over the next three days.”
“The cards belonged to Andrzej Przewoznik, a historian who oversaw wartime memorials in Poland.”
“He was one of a high-level delegation of Poles on their way to commemorate the 1940 Katyn massacre of more than 20,000 Poles by Soviet forces.”
“The global annual cost of crops lost to the disease is estimated to be £3.5bn.”
“The trial, carried out by scientists from The Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL), will last three years.”
“Each year of the trial, approximately 200 sq m, containing about 400 plants, will be sown with GM potatoes.”
“We screened about 100 different species of Sollanum, the genus to which potatoes belong, and identified a few that were resistant.”
“About 130,000 hectares of land in the UK is used to grow potatoes, yielding in the region of 6m tonnes of potatoes each year.”
“However, in a typical growing season, farmers can spray fungicides on their crops up 15 times at a cost of about £500/hectare, Professor Jones said.”
“A new race showed up about four or five years ago, but is now about 70% of all (racees) you see in the field. It has overcome previously resistant varieties of potato.”
“The experiment will be conducted on a 1,000-square-metre plot in Norfolk.”
“The rules are that the field trial has to be at least 20 metres from adjacent conventional potato fields.”
“Distances for potato-to-potato cross pollination events of up to 1km have been recorded in which pollen beetles were believed to be the vectors.”
“Professor Jones said that if there was no public controversy about using technology, then the first GM potatoes could be available to commercial growers within five years.”
“We do face a 'perfect storm' of needing to produce at least 50% more food by 2030 with no more land, less water,”
“A new race showed up about four or five years ago, but is now about 70% of all (racees) you see in the field.”
“A cache of 75 rare silent films uncovered in New Zealand”
“The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hopes to show the rejuvenated Upstream in September”
“The films would be returned by air to the US in steel barrels under strict conditions, said Annette Melville, director of the US National Film Preservation Foundation.”
