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“Gail died in May 1957 before she was a day old.”
“Mrs Jones, now in her 80s, said in the victim impact statement that the fraud squad had called round and asked about Gail.”
“Since 2008, French investigators have been looking at allegations that the cancellation of commissions for one of the arms deals prompted an attack that killed 11 French naval engineers in Pakistan in 2002.”
“In May 2002, a bomb in Karachi killed the engineers who were in Pakistan to build the submarines.”
“French opposition MPs have called on President Nicolas Sarkozy to give details of any links to suspected commissions on arms deals allegedly used to fund political campaigns.”
“Last week, Mr Rimmington's trial was stopped when judge Peter Testar was told the defendant's brother had died 12 days after being attacked on 15 May.”
“Mr Moffett, 43, believed to be linked to the UVF, was shot dead by two masked men on the Shankill Road last Friday.”
“There are a number of suspects that we would believe would be linked to the UVF,”
“The UVF remains very much an organised entity. So I wouldn't recognise a description which described them as being fractured in any way. They are a group which still has its own internal discipline intact.”
“It is very sinister in terms of the direction the UVF is taking as a group, but they are a terrorist group and that's how they remain.”
“Mr Moffett's funeral is to take place on Friday.”
“More than 10,000 shells containing explosives are on board, but without detonators, a Russian government official told the BBC.”
“The removal work could take two years, Maxim Vladimirov said.”
“he visited Whitehaven after the killings on Wednesday”
“Ten fire engines and 50 firefighters tackled the fire”
“At its height 110 cars due to be scrapped were on fire, along with an old diesel tank”
“The council has had a partnership with the trustees of Bryntysilio dating back to the 1960s”
“The only way he could escape was through filthy sewers which he managed to do before being reunited with his 13th Native Infantry regiment.”
“After his escape, Capt Waterman was awarded the Punjab Campaign Medal and the Indian Mutiny Medal.”
“Three men wearing hoods and reported to be carrying a mallet and a nail gun tried to smash their way into the jewellers.”
“Up to 15,000 people usually attend the festival on Midsummer Common”
“the effort needed to ensure an premises licence would take up too much volunteers' time and cancelled the festival.”
“Pc Andrew McGhee suffered puncture wounds to his bottom during a raid on a home in Edinburgh on 8 January.”
“Bolton admitted assaulting Pc Jacqueline Darrien at West Lothian Civic Centre by punching her on the head to her injury on 11 January.”
“who was not yet 18 months old.”
“Bolton, 21, pleaded guilty at Livingston Sheriff Court to inciting the dog attack and for hitting another officer three days later.”
“Japanese dancer Kazuo Ohno, credited with bringing the Butoh style to wider audiences, has died at the age of 103.”
“He began his dance career in the 1930s and continued to appear on stage when he was in his 90s.”
“who photographed Ohno for more than 50 years.”
“He entered pop culture in 2009 when he was featured on the cover of Antony and the Johnsons' album The Crying Light.”
“We are quite short at the moment because four including myself have retired in close sequence which has left a huge gap.”
“The Reverend John Powell of St Mary's in Cardigan is set to retire at the end of August after eight years in post.”
“His departure will leave just three vicars covering the 27 parishes in the diocese.”
“The number of full-time clergy has been falling in recent years with a net loss of more than 100 between 2004 and 2009.”
“And there are no immediate signs of improvement with a quarter of the current clergy set to retire before 2020.”
“The Church in Wales recently launched a five-year recruitment strategy to attract more people to the clergy but has yet to see signs of return.”
“The recruitment gap is echoed in Aberporth where the Reverend John Matthews left St Cynwyl's six months ago”
“and at Manordeifi, where nobody has yet been found to replace Father Paul Mackness.”
“David Hammond-Williams, communications officer for the Diocese of St Davids, agreed there are problems with recruitment and these are not unique to West Wales.”
“The 52-year-old killed 12 people across the west of the county on Wednesday.”
“Malcolm Kennedy, 48, an oil industry worker of Dyce, was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident on the A957 at Rickarton near Stonehaven on Wednesday evening.”
“In April, he agreed to extend the lease allowing Russia's Black Sea fleet to be stationed in the southern port of Sevastopol by 25 years in return for cheaper gas.”
“An extension of the lease, due to expire in 2017, had been opposed by Mr Yushchenko.”
“"The main element of predictability and consistency in Ukraine's foreign policy is its non-aligned status," Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said as he submitted the bill.”
“However, the new law will not affect Ukraine's political and economic integration with Europe. Joining the European Union remains a priority, Mr Azarov said.”
“Work costing £1.2m is being carried out on a jammed river sluice on the River Nene in Cambridgeshire.”
“The lock will be closed to boats for just over a week in October to replace the electrical operating system and to prepare to make it automated.”
“Dog in a Doublet sluice, built in 1937, forms the upstream limit of tidal defences for the River Nene.”
“The work is expected to finish by January 2011.”
“A total of 3,000 potholes have been repaired in Leicestershire since the start of 2010, the county council has said.”
“The council is responsible for 2,575 miles of roads”
“The authority said it is spending £2.5m on resurfacing this spring and summer.”
“Over the spring and summer, nearly 200 miles of Leicestershire roads and over 100 miles of pavements will be improved.”
“Most of the 470 offshore structures in UK waters will need to be scrapped.”
“There are more than 600 oil and gas installations in the North Sea with 470 of them in UK waters, according to Oil & Gas UK.”
“They include thousands of miles of pipelines and steel platforms weighing more than 10,000 tonnes.”
“Nine out of 10 part-worn tyres being sold in Birmingham failed to meet the minimum legal standards, a trading standards investigation found.”
“Three cases were being investigated with a view to prosecution, the city council said.”
“It bought 10 tyres and nine lacked the correct markings required, which identify them as a part-worn tyre.”
“Over the last nine years we have made significant efforts and progress in educating traders across the city about their responsibilities in selling part-worn tyres.”
“Maureen Foxwell, 70, of Trinant, south Wales, was on holiday with her husband when she was struck by the tram near the Norbreck stop on 5 August.”
“52-year-old taxi driver”
“Kevin Commons, aged 60”
“drove seven miles to Whitehaven”
“Michael Pike, 64”
“23-year-old estate agent Jamie Clark”
“spanned about 25 miles”
“Plans for the mill, which closed 20 years ago, include up to 150 apartments and houses, a new factory building and parking.”
“Mr Burton, from the Stroudwater Textile Trust, said: "We're not opposed to development per se, but we are opposed to the way in which this is being done. This is an absolutely unique building."”
“has already won a £2,500 prize in the 110m at the Jed-Forest Border Games last summer”
“was third at the New Year Sprint at Musselburgh Racecourse”
“has been running for the past 15 years”
“My coach believes I am easily capable of running below 11 seconds and I'm confident of getting the time needed before the end of the 2011 summer”
“The country's current 100 metres record of 10.38 seconds, set by Resat Oguz, has stood since 1998”
“He moved to Scotland from Turkey in 1995”
“killed more than 90 people”
“more than half of the country's population”
“two mosques”
“Luigi Padovese, 63, was attacked in the garden of his summer house in the Mediterranean port of Iskenderun, according to Anatolia news agency.”
“Provincial Governor Mehmet Celalettin Lekesiz told Associated Press news agency that the suspect had worked for Mr Padovese for four-and-a-half years.”
“There have been several such attacks in recent years, in a country where Christians comprise less than 1% of the mainly Muslim population.”
“He had been due to leave for Cyprus on Friday to meet the Pope and other bishops in a meeting ahead of the church's synod on the Middle East in October.”
“"It is a terrible... incredible" killing, Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi told the Italian news agency ANSA.”
“The initial investigation shows that the incident is not politically motivated,”
“A £2m plan to improve access, ease congestion and reduce vehicle emissions at Glasgow Airport is under way.”
“The work will see a new passenger drop-off zone created to the west of the main terminal with revised arrangements for passenger pick-up.”
“A new outdoor information hub will also be created to provide a meeting point. This will have information screens showing flights details.”
“The changes will start to take effect from 8 June.”
“We have designed a package of measures that makes it easier for passengers and motorists to access Glasgow Airport, and honours our commitment to support sustainable transport.”
“India scored 9.41.”
“The Hong Kong based group, Political and Economic Risk Consultancy, surveyed more than 1,300 business executives in 12 Asian countries.”
“The poll suggested India had the worst levels of excessive red tape.”
“A recent survey of the Indian bureaucracy found large numbers of civil servants complaining of undue political interference”
“The most recent surviving set of sextuplets in the UK were born in Belfast in May 2009.”
“Turkish post-mortem examinations found all nine of the dead had been shot, some at close range.”
“The bodies were flown from Israel to Istanbul, along with more than 450 activists, to a heroes' welcome.”
“One of the bodies was due to be buried in Istanbul while the other eight were being taken to their home towns, AFP news agency reported.”
“The dead include a 19-year-old Turkish citizen with an American passport - hit by four bullets in the head and one in the chest - and a national taekwondo athlete, Turkish media say.”
“They include 34 people who hold British passports.”
“Three people are in intensive care. Seven other activists are in a serious condition and will remain in Israeli hospitals until they can be moved, Israeli officials say.”
