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“About a quarter of the films are in advanced nitrate decay and the rest have good image quality, though they are badly shrunken," she added.”
“Only 15% of movies by Ford, who won four Oscars during his career, have survived to the present day.”
“the only known copy of a 1927 drama by Oscar-winning director John Ford”
“Inspiration for the film, called Broken Spectre, include an account from Prof Norman Collie in the late 1800s.”
“He claimed to have been "seized with terror" when followed by an unseen creature while descending Ben MacDhui.”
“A total of 100 sculptures have been decorated for the project”
“The 6ft-high works are part of the Lions of Bath 2010 arts project”
“The 50 sculptures are on show around the city and are due to be auctioned for local charities in October.”
“Another 50 are to be exhibited at a later date.”
“Sam Cummins, 22, from Sidmouth, Devon, was thought to be on holiday in the Italian capital when he fell from the M&J Hostel early on Monday.”
“Mr Cummins, who is thought to have arrived in Rome on Sunday morning, was reportedly sharing a room with a number of other young people who were asleep when he fell.”
“Records show there are currently no official University of Exeter rugby tours - either through the Athletics Union or through the Student Guild, the statement added.”
“The A$10 ($8.2, £5.6) mugs welcomed "Barrack Obama" - a mistake attributed to an official who ordered them. Two were sold before the error was spotted but the rest have since been scrapped.”
“It is the second time the US president has delayed a planned trip to Australia. He cancelled one earlier this year to focus on his healthcare reform bill.”
“They would not have been needed anyway - Mr Obama has cancelled his visit to deal with the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.”
“He cancelled one earlier this year to focus on his healthcare reform bill.”
“Parliamentary services secretary Alan Thompson told AFP news agency that his staff had learned a 'valuable lesson'.”
“If Mr Obama scheduled a fresh visit, new mugs would be ordered with more attention to detail, he said.”
“"It did seem a good idea at the time and I think it would have made an excellent keepsake had he arrived and had the spelling been correct," he said.”
“China says a North Korean border guard shot and killed three people near the countries' border last week. A fourth person was reportedly injured in the incident near the north-eastern border town of Dandong.”
“In 2009, North Korea detained two US journalists on the border with China, accusing them of entering North Korea illegally.”
“Beijing is also a participant in the six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear programme. The talks have been going on since 2003 without much progress.”
“A bomb rigged with bags of ball bearings killed three civilians in a Baghdad shopping district.”
“Victims of the attacks included a Sunni Imam from the Shawa militia and two of his sons, who were killed by gunmen in Abu Ghraib, west of Baghdad.”
“Also among the dead was a Christian man, shot 15 times in a drive-by attack on a street in the northern city of Kirkuk.”
“There were 6,868 authorised firearms officers in England and Wales as of 31 March 2009, according to government figures.”
“There were 16,564 such incidents in the year to April 2009, according to government figures.”
“Constabularies covering large counties with densely-populated cities within their borders, such as West Midlands, Nottinghamshire and Merseyside, tend to have between 130 and 150.”
“More rural areas, such as Derbyshire, Cambridgeshire, North Wales and Durham, have between 50 and 100.”
“Cumbria has 97.”
“The British Comedy Awards is moving to Channel 4 after 20 years on ITV, it has been announced.”
“Channel 4 secured broadcast rights to the annual event for three years.”
“In 2006 he made a joke about Heather Mills and her prosthetic leg”
“the following year the presenter suggested he thought he was worth "1,000 BBC journalists"”
“He was temporarily replaced by Angus Deayton in 2008 following the Sachsgate row and his BBC suspension.”
“In 2007 ITV suspended broadcasting of the event for that year while phone-voting problems were looked into.”
“An investigation was launched into Ant and Dec winning the People's Choice trophy, even though the Catherine Tate show had more votes.”
“BA cabin crew are entering their 21st day of strike action this year, with the latest five-day action due to end on Wednesday.”
“British Airways cabin crew met MPs on Tuesday - the penultimate day of the last of a series of five-day walkouts.”
“The Unite union, which represents the striking crew, has threatened to hold a fresh ballot among its members on further strike action, which could disrupt flights during the summer.”
“The long-running dispute is over pay, staffing levels and working conditions.”
“This year's Bulldog Bash, at the site near Stratford-upon-Avon, has been organised for between 12 and 15 August.”
“Organisers of the festival at Long Marston airfield say they have run it safely for 23 years.”
“Thirteen people died in Derry on Bloody Sunday, another man died later from his injuries”
“The report of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry is due to be published on 15 June.”
“Thirty-six British nationals were held in the raid in which nine people died.”
“I thought there was a 10% or 20% chance I would not.”
“Israel stepped up its blockade of Gaza in 2007, when the Hamas movement took control of the territory.”
“More than 100 animals were found were found emaciated, dehydrated, starved and seriously ill at Spindle Farm in Amersham in January 2008.”
“Seventeen of the 36 horses rehabilitated by the RSPCA are now fit and healthy enough to be re-homed.”
“The other 20 will be available for re-homing soon.”
“The 36 horses are being looked after at various RSPCA animal centres across England and Wales.”
“Six cars or 200 people can be carried over the River Tees”
“The bridge, which carries passengers and vehicles on a suspended gondola, celebrates its centenary next year. Work was due to last until 14 June, but the bridge reopens later. Paul Thompson, Middlesbrough Council's executive member for tra…”
“Work was due to last until 14 June”
“The 225ft (69m) high bridge is one of Teesside's most recognisable landmarks”
“At least 12 people have died and five are missing after a packed ferry capsized in storms in north-east Bangladesh, officials say.”
“The ferry was carrying about 35 passengers including many school children, local official Mohammad Babul Mia told the BBC.”
“The accident took place in Sunamganj district, about 140km (85 miles) north of the capital, Dhaka.”
“Last November, 118 people were killed in two ferry accidents in Bangladesh within a week.”
“Mr Mia said that most of the dead in the latest disaster were school pupils.”
“Nolan was the Irish ex-trainee nun who came second to Craig Phillips in the first ever Big Brother in 2000.”
“The first series of Big Brother launched on 18 July 2000 and ran for 64 days.”
“Channel 4 launches the 11th and final series of its flagship reality TV show this week, Nolan will be glued to the screen for the next 13 weeks.”
“Mission Beach which follows eight teenagers learning to be lifeguards in San Diego.”
“I think Big Brother made me focus on where I wanted to go in life. I'd been a drifter for 30 years," she says.”
“Big Brother begins on Channel 4 on Wednesday at 2100 BST.”
“A type of bee has been recorded for the first time in Scotland, in the grounds of a university where the Bumblebee Conservation Trust (BBCT) is based.”
“The tawny mining bee was found in the University of Stirling's campus by the trust's director Dr Ben Darvill.”
“His find was confirmed by Murdo Macdonald of the Highland Biological Recording Group.”
“In February, a species of bumblebee was spotted in Scotland for the first time in 50 years.”
“The southern cuckoo bumblebee was seen at Humbleton Hill, just north of Eyemouth, by Bob Dawson from the BBCT.”
“Meanwhile, BBCT are semi-finalists and only Scottish-based project left in a UK-wide competition to select the top eco-project for the National Lottery Awards.”
“The next section of the line will link Johannesburg to the national capital, Pretoria, 50km (31 miles) away in 40 minutes.”
“Construction on the Gautrain began in September 2006 and will be finalised in June 2011 when an additional 10 stations, covering approximately 80km (50 miles) are completed.”
“the old Metrorail network, responsible for transporting two million people daily”
“the existing 23,000 km of tarred roads”
“The operational route includes four stations and bus services between the affluent Sandton suburb and the airport.”
“which on average cost 300 rand ($40; £27.32) but will now cost just $13.”
“Traffic between Johannesburg and Pretoria is currently growing by 7% each year.”
“It will operate between 05:30 and 20:30 weekdays, running every 12 minutes during peak times.”
“It took me 15 minutes to get here, this is awesome.”
“The leaking wellhead is currently spewing out between 12,000 and 24,000 barrels of oil per day.”
“Some 11,000 barrels of oil are being trapped by a containment cap.”
“Oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill has been found on beaches and wetlands along more than 100 miles (161 km) of coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle.”
“The Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and sank on 20 April, killing 11 workers.”
“Adm Allen said it would take 'a couple of months' to clear the oil slick from the surface of the Gulf.”
“Long-term issues of restoring environments and habitats will be years.”
“Cable, 40, was found dead at his home near Aberdare on Monday.”
“Floral tributes pictured on Monday have doubled overnight”
“Cable was due to play the Download festival this coming weekend with his new band, Killing for Company and release their debut album.”
“The pairs fell out after Cable was sacked from the band in 2003, said they made up their differences a year afterwards and had been friends again for the last five years.”
“He last spoke to the drummer on Saturday, the day Stereophonics played to a sell-out crowd at the Cardiff City Stadium.”
“Initially 86 asylum seekers will move to the isolated gold mining town of Leonora while the authorities process their refugee claims.”
“The town of Leonora, with a population of 1,200 people, has answered a call from the federal government to help it alleviate overcrowding at the Christmas Island detention centre.”
“The government says the asylum seekers are likely to remain in Leonora for up to six months while their applications to stay in Australia are processed.”
“They are moving to an old mining camp 830km (416 miles) northeast of Perth.”
“On Sunday, more than 1,500 people attended two open air services in Whitehaven and Seascale.”
“UK potato growers spray crops 10-15 times a year and in 2007 Europe ran out of chemicals to control blight, it was such a wet year.”
“The largest scientific farming study every conducted saw no clear role for GM crops in feeding the world - and their roll-out in other countries reveals that they benefit big business, not local farmers or hungry people.”
