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“The grenades had been found in a garage owned by a cast member's father-in-law during a clear-out after his death.”
“It was during rehearsals fortunately. It would have been a bit unfortunate in a crowd of 100 people. It was in a rehearsal just prior to doing a live show.”
“We'd driven down from Droitwich in Worcestershire with them rattling around in the back of the car.”
“the World War I devices are crown property”
“Specialist Manning, 22, was detained during a tour of duty in Iraq, and is being held in Kuwait pending further investigations.”
“Spc Manning also said he had passed on 260,000 classified US diplomatic cables.”
“The video from Iraq shows a US helicopter strike in July 2007 in which about 12 people died.”
“Victim support groups first said in 2001 that they believed the biological mothers of Marcela and Felipe were among the hundreds of women who gave birth in clandestine torture centres and were then murdered.”
“The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo group alleges that Ernestina Herrera de Noble, who owns the Clarin media conglomerate, illegally adopted them 34 years ago.”
“The Grandmothers have identified dozens of children of people who disappeared during this time.”
“A Leicestershire town which has been without a picture house for 30 years is set to benefit from a mobile cinema. The cinema has been donated for the use of residents in Market Harborough by the Scottish Arts Council and £50,000 has been r…”
“Three years ago teenager Lucy Seaward started a campaign for a town cinema.”
“The former Ritz theatre on Northampton Road closed in 1978 and later became a supermarket.”
“Ms Seaward had said people in Harborough previously had to drive 30 minutes to get to their nearest cinema in Kettering, Rugby, Northampton or Leicester.”
“Born on 19 May 1970, he grew up on the same street as Kelly Jones...”
“His last BBC Radio Wales show went out on Saturday evening, 36 hours before he was found dead...”
“With the name sorted, the Stereophonics - including bassist Richard Jones (no relation) - were signed by Richard Branson in 1996.”
“The Stereos recorded four albums with Cable.”
“Their second, Performance and Cocktails, reached the top of the UK charts...”
“He had only returned to BBC Radio Wales in April for a new series.”
“His death comes only days before Killing For Company were due to play at this year's Download festival at Donnington, and release their debut album.”
“He celebrated his 40th birthday only recently.”
“His last BBC Radio Wales show went out on Saturday evening, 36 hours before he was found dead at his mansion-style home a mile or so outside Cwmaman...”
“Shareholders will start a campaign on Wednesday to raise awareness of their claims.”
“The coach, which was carrying 41 children and eight adult passengers, was travelling along the slip-road off the motorway towards Folkestone when the accident happened.”
“just under 2,000 hectares (4,940 acres)”
“3,000 hectares”
“up to 0.1% of the crop is contaminated with NK603 - equivalent to 100 contaminated plants per hectare”
“0.03%”
“about 2,000 hectares”
“two sacks of seeds”
“So far the EU has allowed only two GM crops to be cultivated - Monsanto's MON 810 maize and a type of potato harvested for starch.”
“Commercial GM planting takes place in Spain, Portugal and the Czech Republic.”
“with three trophies.”
“in 2006.”
“in 2008.”
“five writers”
“won an Oscar in 1995”
“screen debut in 1982”
“returned to the director's chair in 2009”
“Capaldi's only other Bafta before Sunday night's triumph”
“Three chicks have been spotted at the nesting site of a pair of ospreys at Kielder in Northumberland.”
“The birds also reared three chicks in the forest last summer, becoming the first to breed in the north-east of England for 200 years.”
“The nest is only the second location in England where ospreys have recolonised naturally.”
“The nest - or eyrie - was built high in a tree in the 155,000-acre woodland by Forestry Commission rangers.”
“Ospreys were once distributed widely, but persecution resulted in the species becoming extinct in England as a breeding bird in 1840 and in Scotland in 1916.”
“They re-colonised naturally in Scotland in 1954.”
“Launched as a pilot scheme in October 2008, the city wardens project was introduced to improve the local environment.”
“In the 12 months to April 2010, wardens have issued more than 250 fixed penalty notices for offences such as littering and unlicensed leafleting.”
“The team will now increase from eight to 22 personnel, the city council said.”
“In a targeted campaign on fly-posting, city wardens worked with cleansing staff to remove more than 14,000 posters from street furniture.”
“The council said the team was also involved in more than 1,800 investigations into fly-tipping and 315 cases of nuisance parking.”
“In Hungary, the previous [Socialist] government falsified data,' said another spokesman for Mr Orban on Friday. 'In Greece, they also falsified data. In Greece the moment of truth has arrived. Hungary is still before that.'”
“However, the operation to dig up the top 5cm (2in) of soil in the remote village of Yar'Gailma has been delayed until Tuesday because bad roads have delayed the heavy machinery, officials say.”
“For every two grams of cocaine consumed in Scotland, 8 sq metres of Colombian jungle are cut down”
“in the past 20 years, 2.2 million hectares of tropical forest have been destroyed to make way for coca plant”
“A total of 150 people linked to Hampshire teams have football banning orders, which mean they have to surrender their passports.”
“A 2006 operation found 36 people in breach of their orders.”
“Inquests into the deaths of 12 people killed by Cumbrian gunman Derrick Bird have been opened.”
“Six people remain in hospital after the taxi driver's rampage across the west of the county on Wednesday.”
“More than 1,500 people attended services commemorating the victims in Whitehaven and Seascale on Sunday.”
“The inquests were adjourned at Whitehaven Magistrates' Court, where west Cumbria coroner David Roberts also opened an inquest into Bird's death. At the 15-minute hearing, attended by some of the victims' families, Mr Roberts confirmed that…”
“He killed family solicitor Kevin Commons and took shots at fellow cabbies outside the taxi rank in Whitehaven, claiming the life of Darren Rewcastle... The other victims were Kenneth Fishburn, 71, Susan Hughes, 57, James Jackson, 67, Jenni…”
“He then went on an hour-long rampage killing random passers-by using a shotgun and a .22 rifle fitted with a telescopic sight.”
“Archaeologists have exhumed 80 skeletons from gardens at Driffield Terrace over the past decade.”
“The skeletons date from the late first century AD to the 4th century AD.”
“and 14 of them were interred together with grave goods to accompany them to the next world.”
“Interred with one man were what appear to have been the remains of substantial joints of meat from at least four horses, possibly consumed at the funeral, plus some cow and pig remains.”
“Gladiators: Back From The Dead will be shown on Channel 4 on Monday, 14 June at 2100 BST.”
“The researchers said all the individuals were buried with some respect and 14 of them were interred together with grave goods to accompany them to the next world.”
“One of the most significant items of evidence is a large carnivore bite mark - probably inflicted by a lion, tiger or bear - an injury which must have been sustained in an arena context.”
“His father, Ian, 71, said: "It's a really bad time for us. We are all in shock."”
“Last April the family featured in the media when it emerged that they could become the first to undergo three heart transplants.”
“He told the BBC Scotland news website last year: "It is very rare. Rather than a hat trick - we would be going for a 'heart trick'.”
“A Freedom of Information request showed that from April 2009 to April 2010 the Hereford and Worcester service got to 70.86% of such fires in that time.”
“It took longer than 10 minutes to reach an incident on 218 occasions out of 748 fires.”
“The FBU said the rate "at which they are failing by is disguised in the way they record the times".”
“We're all human - that's why they set it at 75%.”
“Mr Yates said the figure was just under 75% in the previous year and there could be "many, many reasons" for the decrease up to this April.”
“The BBC reported in December 2008 that 12 firefighter jobs had been cut by the service, which employs about 900 staff.”
“for the start of the seven-day event on 3 June.”
“First held in 1685.”
“One pub was shut down because there was horse dealing going on.”
“The review lasted eight weeks and attracted "several hundred" responses from Wiltshire residents.”
“Wiltshire Council cabinet member for environment and waste Toby Sturgis said a new transit site was "definitely" needed.”
“But he added: "There has been a lot of evidence that there are a lot of vacant pitches on larger sites."”
“A 27-tonne iron bridge has been lifted from its position over the River Ouse in Sussex so it can be restored.”
“Work on the 18th Century, Grade II listed bridge at Southease is part of a £1.5m restoration project.”
“The swing bridge was first constructed in 1791 and then rebuilt in the 1880s”
“The bridge, which crosses the river between Lewes and Newhaven, is expected to reopen by the start of next year.”
“The report, released on Monday, argues that globalisation and technological change have "reshaped the geography of private sector growth".”
“The gantries and buttresses that hold up the roof and the stands look like giant giraffes.”
“Two young men, Roni Slatchayo and Thulane Kosa, told me that the water they do have - from a public tank - is not even clean.”
“At the Good Hope Centre, the co-ordinator Ntombifuti Nyoni watches over 100 children in her toddlers' creche as construction lorries and graders send clouds of dust into the playground.”
“Last month, Beth Steel's Ditch became the first straight play to be staged in a labyrinth of disused tunnels under London's Waterloo Station.”
“The Old Vic acquired the tunnels in February 2010 to create a new arts venue.”
“The theatre's 160 seats were donated by artist Banksy, who has already used the space as a cinema.”
“The low growl of locomotives bound for Surbiton and Southampton punctuates the action of the play every three minutes or so.”
“HighTide's 2009 show Stovepipe was staged in a shopping centre and underground car park in Shepherd's Bush.”
“Slung Low has just moved into a new home within five railway arches in the south of the city known as the Holbeck Underground Ballroom.”
