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“Lord Bragg, 70, will be presented with his award at Sunday night's Bafta TV awards at the London Palladium.”
“The Bafta TV awards, hosted by Graham Norton, will be broadcast at 2000 BST on Sunday 6 June on BBC One.”
“there are no plans to create a lifeboat station on Loch Awe in Argyll”
“The inquiry follows the drowning of four men on the loch in March 2009.”
“The bodies of William Carty, 47, and Craig Currie, 30, were recovered from the water soon after the accident.”
“Two bodies, believed to be those of Mr Carty's brother, Steven, 42, and 36-year-old Thomas Douglas were recovered 10 weeks later.”
“Despite the alarm being raised, it took more than an hour for the rescue boat from Renfrew to arrive at the scene.”
“Loch Awe, which is popular with anglers, is the third largest loch by surface area in Scotland”
“It is also the longest freshwater loch in Scotland, measuring more than 25 miles from end to end”
“with an average width of just over half a mile”
“More than 2,000 people have signed a petition against the development, which would also include 90 affordable homes.”
“A lot of people are having to move to Scarborough to get affordable housing and that's splitting families up.”
“who was 54”
“Born in Egypt's Nile Delta in December 1955”
“he was imprisoned for three years for alleged links to the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1981.”
“When Osama Bin Laden moved to Sudan after Operation Desert Storm in 1991, he went with him.”
“He then followed the al-Qaeda leader back to Afghanistan in 1996”
“He is believed to have played a significant role in organising the finances for the September 2001 attacks on the US.”
“His appointment as head of al-Qaeda's Afghan operations was announced in 2007”
“As recently as 26 April, he posted a message eulogising al-Qaeda's two top leaders in Iraq, who had been killed that month.”
“The al-Qaeda statement says his wife and three children were killed with him”
“The US authorities had been hunting him for some years”
“such key figures, al-Qaeda's core leadership will be kept sufficiently off-balance to make it harder to plan and execute major attacks on the West such as the liquid bomb plot of 2006 and the London bombings of 2005.”
“Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, who was 54, was the key intermediary between al-Qaeda and the Afghan Taliban.”
“When Osama Bin Laden moved to Sudan after Operation Desert Storm in 1991”
“he then followed the al-Qaeda leader back to Afghanistan in 1996”
“But the US government and its allies are hoping that by slow, steady attrition of such key figures, al-Qaeda's core leadership will be kept sufficiently off-balance to make it harder to plan and execute major attacks on the West such as th…”
“At least nine people were killed when commandos stormed a boat, but no Britons are thought to be among them.”
“The ship, carrying 10,000 tons of aid, including cement and building materials that Israel bans from Gaza, left the coast of Cyprus on Sunday.”
“The passenger ferry, Mavi Marmara, was one of three provided by Insani Yardim Vakfi (IHH), a Turkish aid organisation with links to the Turkish government.”
“Israel says it allows about 15,000 tonnes of humanitarian aid into Gaza every week, but the United Nations says that is less than a quarter of what is needed.”
“It was due to arrive in Gaza on Monday, but Israelis boarded it overnight in international waters and clashed with hundreds of passengers, who were mostly Turkish.”
“The festival will have 22 world premieres, 12 international premieres and 133 features from 34 countries.”
“The 64th EIFF, which will run from 16 to 27 June, will open with Sylvain Chomet's The Illusionist.”
“Sir Sean Connery is to attend its new venue at the Edinburgh Festival Theatre for a showing of The Man Who Would Be King on Sunday 20 June.”
“The film will be shown on Saturday 19 June, a full month before it goes on general release in the UK.”
“Three of the festival's four patrons, Sir Sean, Tilda Swinton and Seamus McGarvey, will be attending the festival, officials have confirmed.”
“The closing night gala will be the world premiere of Third Star, a British film by newcomer Hattie Dalton.”
“The 1977 film was shot during the Edinburgh International Film Festival that year and has cameos from Alan Bennett and John Boorman as the stars try to pitch their film to the professionals.”
“The festival will also host the international premiere of Toy Story 3 the day after it is first screened in the US. The film will be shown on Saturday 19 June, a full month before it goes on general release in the UK.”
“The horror film has no images and is sound only. It features Still Game comedian Greg Hemphill among the cast and asks the audience to use their imagination to create the pictures.”
“Twenty-nine people died in Omagh on 15 August 1998”
“The plane crashed on 10 April at Smolensk in western Russia.”
“They were on their way to commemorate the 1940 Katyn massacre of more than 20,000 Poles by Soviet forces.”
“The transcript that was published on the Polish interior ministry website on Tuesday shows Russian air traffic controllers warning the pilots not to land 16 minutes before the crash.”
“About 15 minutes before the crash, pilots told the Polish foreign ministry's diplomatic protocol chief - who was in the cockpit - that the plane was not currently able to land.”
“After a gap of 10 minutes, Mr Kazana told the pilots: 'The president hasn't decided yet what we will do.'”
“According to Reuters news agency, three minutes before the crash the transcript shows an unidentified person in the cockpit saying: '(S)he will be annoyed if...'”
“Russian investigators handed the flight data recorders to their Polish colleagues on Monday.”
“Poland has published the transcript of flight recorders from the plane crash that killed the Polish president and 95 others.”
“After a gap of 10 minutes, Mr Kazana told the pilots: "The president hasn't decided yet what we will do."”
“According to Reuters news agency, three minutes before the crash the transcript shows an unidentified person in the cockpit saying: "(S)he will be annoyed if..."”
“His efforts failed, but a posthumous George Cross was awarded as he slowed the train and warned others, preventing the crash from being more serious.”
“The train eventually collided with freight train, destroying a signal box and killing a guard on the freight train and Mr Axon.”
“The story of a train driver who died trying to prevent a crash in Derbyshire has been added to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.”
“Dr Philip Carter from the dictionary of biography said Mr Axon "was taken up as working class hero, someone capable of leading an ordinary life but performing heroic acts".”
“Mr Axon inspired a BBC radio ballad documentary, The Ballad of John Axon.”
“The stadium would have 4,500 seats as a sporting events venue and a 10,000 capacity for events such as music concerts.”
“It added that it was also working towards applying for European grants if the plans go forward.”
“It is expected that the study will be completed by the autumn.”
“The junction of Portland Street, Newton Street and Piccadilly will be closed for about seven weeks, the firm said.”
“Engineers will be working seven days a week, he said.”
“No one likes roadworks, especially in the middle of a busy city like Manchester, so we have really appreciated the patience of traders, motorists and residents over the last three years.”
“Our Victorian forebears did an amazing job bringing sanitation and clean water to the crowded city, helping it grow from strength to strength over the last 150 years, but their cast iron pipes were past their sell-by date.”
“The new plastic pipes will stop leaks, improve water quality and pressure and serve the city well for the next century.”
“Ms McClymont had lived in Dubai since December last year”
“Ms McClymont, who was aged 50, had been living at the Golden Sands 2 development since December.”
“The body of Maria McClymont, from Edinburgh, who was a training manager for a hotel group in the Emirate, was found last Thursday.”
“The EU and Russia have been considering visa-free travel since 2005.”
“He said there was a "high degree of readiness" in Russia to lift visa requirements, but the situation in the 27-nation EU was "rather different".”
“but the situation in the 27-nation EU was "rather different".”
“He said each EU member state had its own view on the question of cancelling visas for Russian citizens.”
“It would simply make life easier for millions of people”
“One woman and three men were charged and have appeared in court while all the others were released either on bail or pending reports to the PPS.”
“A second was interviewed on Saturday in relation to two allegations of child sexual abuse.”
“the campaign group Tripping Up Trump has bought an acre of land from Mr Forbes in what it calls the 'heartland' of the planned golf resort”
“Gwyn Lloyd Roberts, 46, of Caernarfon, was pulled out of the building in Caernarfon by firefighters but died at the scene.”
“Firefighters rescued two women and a middle-aged man from the flat above JL Roberts newsagents, but Mr Roberts died from his injuries at the scene.”
“Two fire crews from Caernarfon and one from Llanberis attended the scene after being alerted by calls from the public.”
“Last night they were called out to a fire in Tregarth, Gwynedd, caused by an electric blanket. Two people in their 50s suffered smoke inhalation and were treated at the scene.”
“North Wales Fire and Rescue Service offer free home fire safety checks for all residents in north Wales.”
“An exhibition on the Dobbies proposals will be held at the Parklands City Learning Centre in Speke on Wednesday, from 1400 BST until 2000 BST.”
“new standards set to be enforced in 2015”
“Paignton and Plymouth Hoe were given passes by the MCS in its report which covers May to September 2009”
“The 45-year-old manager of a restaurant in Essex was threatened with a handgun by masked robbers who then escaped with a large amount of money.”
“Two men entered an upstairs room of Mason's Restaurant, Ingrave Road, Brentwood, and forced the woman to hand over a four-figure sum of money.”
“A charity that helps the jobless back into work is to offer places for 27 people from Flintshire and Wrexham.”
“Refurbs Flintshire, a furniture and electrical appliance re-use charity based at Aber Park, Flint, will start a one-year, £160,000 scheme on 28 June.”
“The charity will recruit three groups of nine jobless for 16 weeks' paid work experience and training.”
“The six-ship flotilla was carrying 10,000 tonnes of medicine, construction materials and education supplies - the movement's largest operation to date.”
“There were more than 650 passengers, among them representatives of the Malaysian-based Perdana Global Peace Organisation, the Greece and Sweden-based Ship to Gaza group, and the large Turkish charity, IHH.”
“IHH founded in 1992, is now active in 120 countries.”
“At least 15 trainees are to take on the job of spotting potential hazards and to promote fire safety in the high rises.”
“as not only will it provide local unemployed people with training and a job for six months”
“The move comes after a number of recent fatal fires in tower blocks across the country.”
“trainee concierges would be acting as the eyes and ears of the Lothian and Borders Fire and Rescue Service over the next year.”
“Peru's 29.5m population”
“who make up around 10% of Peru's 29.5m population”
“Indigenous and African-descendants in Peru earn 40% less than mixed-race people, says Hugo Nopo.”
“But for most black Peruvians, who make up around 10% of Peru's 29.5m population, there is little they can do to change their options.”
