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“The RSPCA has appealed for information after two cats died from poisoning within days of each other.”
“The first incident happened on 22 May in Pontshonnorton Road when a 10-month-old cat named Fred collapsed and died in his owner's house.”
“Similar incidents have been reported in the past 12 months at Brithdir in Caerphilly county and Bridgend.”
“Anyone with information regarding the incident should ring the RSPCA on 0300 1234999.”
“The first cat in Pontypridd was taken to a vet who investigated and confirmed that the animal had drunk anti-freeze.”
“A four-storey building has collapsed in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, killing at least 23 people and injuring others.”
“In 2006, at least 15 people dead and 50 injured when a five-storey building collapses in Dhaka.”
“And in 2005, more than 60 people died when an illegally-constructed garment factory collapses near Dhaka.”
“She said she was worried that if the appeal failed and Mr Arapi was to be extradited, she would be unable to pay the mortgage, leaving her and their children - two daughters under eight and a son just a week old - homeless.”
“A crackdown on the protests last month, which followed days of skirmishes, left some 80 people dead and 1,800 injured.”
“They had been protesting in Bangkok since 14 March, occupying the shopping district and forcing hotels and shops to close. On 19 May, the stand-off turned violent as the government moved in to seal off the area and a renegade general who b…”
“Mr Hernandez died in a hospital near San Diego on Monday, three days after he was beaten and shot with Taser stun guns as agents tried to deport him.”
“Mr Hernandez had lived and worked in California for more than 20 years.”
“Hundreds of thousands of Mexicans are deported or voluntarily repatriated from the US each year.”
“BP said the spill - the largest in US history - might be capped within 24 hours, but success was not guaranteed.”
“Speaking in Washington on Tuesday, President Barack Obama described the leak as "the greatest environmental disaster of its kind in our history"...”
“Other companies involved with the Deepwater Horizon rig, which exploded on 20 April with the loss of 11 lives...”
“Chief operating officer Doug Suttles said: "If everything goes well, within the next 24 hours we could have this contained."”
“...he stressed that success was not guaranteed and urged people to "remember this is being done in 5,000 ft of water, and very small issues take a long time to fix".”
“An oil sheen has been seen about nine miles (14.5km) off the coast of Florida...”
“...with officials warning it could reach Pensacola Beach by Wednesday, the Associated Press news agency reports.”
“Deepwater Horizon rig, which exploded on 20 April with the loss of 11 lives”
“NOAA predicting up to 14 hurricanes, of which between three to seven will be 'major' tempests”
“An oil sheen has been seen about nine miles (14.5km) off the coast of Florida”
“At least 20 million gallons (76 million litres) have now spilled into the Gulf, affecting more than 70 miles (110km) of Louisiana's coastline.”
“NOAA warned that winds forecast later this week could move the spill towards the Mississippi and Alabama coasts”
“The ASA received 40 complaints that the effects shown could not be achieved since Cole had extensions.”
“Nine activists, four of them Turkish, died when Israeli commandos boarded the six-ship convoy early on Monday.”
“Four planes were due to fly them out - three Turkish jets bound for Istanbul and one Greek jet going to Greece.”
“Israel seized a total of 682 people along with the ships.”
“Around 50 activists were deported early on Tuesday.”
“The six ships, carrying more than 10,000 tonnes of aid”
“According to the UN, Gaza receives about one-quarter of the supplies that it received in the years before the blockade was tightened in 2007.”
“Hasan Nowarah, from Glasgow, was among 37 British nationals thought to have been with the flotilla when it was intercepted as it headed towards Gaza.”
“At least nine activists died when commandos boarded the six-ship convoy.”
“Israel has now started deporting those who were on board the ships, with more than 120 foreign activists having left the country by Wednesday morning.”
“Other Scots on the flotilla at the time were Theresa McDermott, from Edinburgh, artist Clifford Hanley, journalist Hassan Ghani, from Glasgow, and Dundee-based estate agent Ali El-Awaisi.”
“Scotland's Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said that Israel's actions had been 'rightly condemned around the world'.”
“At one housing development in Somerset he said a 'mini Berlin wall' was being built between the housing areas because of problems associated with the lower-cost scheme.”
“For example, our records from India have a lot of recent data from the Himalayas, but we have hardly any data at all from the central plains; yet there must be birds there.”
“Arthur Pritchard, who was 86, from Felinheli, Gwynedd, spent most of his life driving JCBs and digging holes or demolishing things.”
“But he was one of only two survivors when his Lancaster bomber crashed in flames in northern France in 1944.”
“Of the seven men on board, five perished in the fireball, and one was taken prisoner by the Germans. Only Flight Engineer Arthur Pritchard escaped.”
“On the night of 9/10 June 1944, just days after the beginning of the D-Day landings, the crew of ND764 left RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire, for a bombing raid on Etampes, around fifty kilometres outside Paris.”
“Mr Pritchard spent two months under-cover in France, being transferred around safe-houses by following several different cyclists with a certain colour of saddle-bag.”
“when the Allies liberated Paris in August 1944”
“Mr Pritchard is survived by seven children, thirteen grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.”
“Two pieces of flint unearthed at motorway works in Dartford, Kent, have now been dated to 110,000 years ago.”
“The finds push back the presence of Neanderthals in Britain by 40,000 years or more, said Dr Francis Wenban-Smith, from Southampton University.”
“An absence of archaeological evidence suggests people abandoned this land between 200,000 years ago (or 160,000 years ago, depending on who you ask) and 65,000 years ago.”
“For instance, from 200,000-130,000 years ago the sea level was predominantly low.”
“So that, before 130,000, they hadn't really cracked it. But after 115,000, they had cracked it.”
“Around 130,000 years ago, sea levels rose and Neanderthals would have been blocked from entering Britain by the English Channel. But around 115,000 years ago, sea levels fell again.”
“I have similar dates from a site near Dover in Kent, which have come out between 90,000 and 100,000 years ago.”
“Neanderthals split from our evolutionary line some 500,000 years ago.”
“Dr Wenban-Smith along with other researchers think that "classic" Neanderthal features appeared about 200,000 years ago.”
“These include the 400,000-year-old partial skull unearthed at Swanscombe in Kent and 230,000-year-old human teeth excavated at Pontnewydd in Wales.”
“The Frenchman assumed the role of director general in 2003, and is coming to the end of his second term.”
“Esa now numbers 18 member-states and is set to grow still further”
“The European Space Agency was set up in 1975”
“The European Space Agency was set up in 1975 and now has 18 full members and a number of co-operating states that includes Canada.”
“This decision could come as early as this month when the agency's council meets at Esa's Paris headquarters.”
“killed 148 people”
“Alexandra Lort-Phillips, from Hackney, was one of the nine Londoners heading for Gaza in the six-ship flotilla.”
“The flotilla, carrying 10,000 tonnes of aid, left the coast of Cyprus on Sunday and was due to arrive in Gaza on Monday, when it was attacked.”
“Londoners believed to be among the 40 British nationals taking part in the aid flotilla.”
“I received a phone call at about 7.20 from my mother who was quite panicked, who said along the lines of 'its all gone horribly wrong and people are dead'.”
“He said it was only on Tuesday afternoon he heard about his sister's whereabouts.”
“The single-vehicle collision happened on February 15, near Yew Tree Farm on the A548 in Sealand, Flintshire.”
“Just days later another man from Connah's Quay - Carl Sutton, 26 - died on the same stretch of road. Mr Sutton, who worked for Vauxhall in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, died at the scene after his car hit a tree.”
“Six-year-old Jack disappeared on Sunday afternoon during a walk with his owners in Dearne Valley Park, Barnsley. He turned up uninjured on the doorstep of the family home nine miles (14km) away in Penistone 31 hours later.”
“Mr Cooper said Jack would have had to cross the M1, the A628, the A637, the A638 and the A629 to get home.”
“The protest took place during the youth festival at the National Trust estate at Llanerchaeron in Ceredigion”
“Experts working on the project, called InLiveTox, will be at an international nanotoxicology conference at Edinburgh Napier University on 2-4 June”
“His death brings the number of UK service personnel killed in Afghanistan to 289.”
“Of eight British personnel killed in Afghanistan in May, four were marines.”
“The 21-year-old from Buxton, Derbyshire, deployed to Sangin in April, and was described as "an outstanding marine".”
“Marine Taylor joined the Royal Marines in September 2007 and followed his younger brother to pass for duty as a commando the following year.”
“In September last year he began training for his operation in Sangin, where, from April, he was based out of Patrol Base Jamil.”
“About 100 sites across the city centre were being searched, including excavations made by utility companies.”
“On Friday, further remains were found a short distance from where Ms Balmires's remains were discovered, but tests later revealed they were animal and not human.”
“A council 'dog exclusion' order that bans dog walking in more than 230 sites in the East Riding has come into place.”
“Dog exclusion is the fourth in a series of orders created by the council, following a public consultation on dog control in 2008.”
“Owners have previously been banned from taking their dogs to beaches in Bridlington, Hornsea and Withernsea.”
“"According to the UN's preliminary report, there are 68,000 hectares [9680sq km] under coca cultivation in Colombia this year."”
“"If we look at the Andean region as a whole what we see is not only that coca crops are basically the same size as the year 2000 but also that the potential cocaine production from those crops is the same as well."”
“"US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was in Colombia this week, where she held talks with President Alvaro Uribe and Mr Santos... Mrs Clinton also met the Green Party's candidate, Antanas Mockus..."”
“"Plan Colombia has had some changes," Mr Mockus said recently. "The change in President Obama's policy goes in the same direction [as mine]...It's more about prosecuting big players in the drugs trade, and from my side, working more closel…”
“"...the bilateral relationship has now become so institutionalised that even a new president in the United States would have a very hard time undoing it," said Dr Tickner.”
“Over the next month, she has to find a suitable replacement, help save the euro, and make deep budget cuts.”
“Last year Durham Constabulary recorded its lowest number of fatal accidents since the present force boundaries were created in 1974.”
“impressive eight-lane roads leading to these suburbs.”
“in Lalibela, 700km (about 435 miles) away from Addis Ababa”
“Firefighters in Canada are battling more than 50 forest fires that have sparked smog alerts across Quebec and parts of the north-eastern US.”
“At least eight of the blazes north of Montreal were out of control, Quebec's forest fire protection unit said.”
“The fires - sparked by lightning strikes - have raged for a week, and more than 1,300 firefighters were battling the blazes on Monday evening.”
“More than 1,260 sq km of Quebec forest have been scorched, according to the provincial forest fire protection authority.”
“Lord Bragg is best known for presenting ITV's flagship arts programme The South Bank Show, which began in 1978.”
“Lord Bragg's "commitment to the arts has shone through in over three decades of quality programme-making".”
“Last year, ITV announced that The South Bank Show was coming to an end.”
