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“Sunderland City Council will consider the proposal on 2 June.”
“left at least 142 people dead.”
“for the next four days”
“about 150km (90 miles) west of Calcutta”
“46cm (1.5ft) portion of the train track had been removed”
“between the hours of 2200 and 0500”
“until 0500 on 3 June”
“Up to 100,000 people are expected to descend on Birmingham for the city's annual Gay Pride Festival, organisers say.”
“Last year, about 75,000 people went.”
“19-year-old Josh Dubovie is set to represent the UK at the Eurovision Song Contest in Norway on Saturday night.”
“He had an arduous 36-hour journey to Oslo - travelling by car ferry to Denmark, driving north for three hours, hopping on a boat to Norway, then catching a coach to the capital.”
“But his biggest test will come when he performs the UK's entry, That Sounds Good To Me, to a television audience of 125 million.”
“He was turned down by X Factor and Britain's Got Talent - but, by amazing coincidence, his rejection letter from ITV arrived on the same day he won Your Country Needs You, the BBC TV competition to find the UK's Eurovision act.”
“Dubovie is expected back at StageAbility this July, when he is due to take the lead role in a local production of Notre Dame.”
“In Oslo, Dubovie has spent the past week in Eurovision bootcamp, with a strenuous schedule of rehearsals at the Eurovision venue, the Telenor Arena, about 15 minutes outside the centre of Oslo.”
“His stage show incorporates five dancers and a series of brightly illuminated boxes, which the teenager jumps off towards the end of the song.”
“After the first run-through on 22 May, he described the experience as "unbelievable" and joked about his stress levels.”
“Dubovie points to Jade Ewen's success in 2009 - she came fifth - as proof that political voting is just a scapegoat for nations who don't want to admit their entries were below par.”
“Work to clear part of the River Dove starts on 2 June at Hulme End car park.”
“We need to get rid of it in June, July and August before it seeds.”
“Each plant produces up to 800 seeds in pods that 'explode' on touch, catapulting the seed up to seven metres.”
“Volunteer are sought on the River Derwent between 1000 BST until 15000 BST on Sunday 11 July, Saturday 17 July and Sunday 25 July.”
“People should meet near Calver crossroads on the A623 by the playing fields, officials said.”
“Even the small fish, you know that they've probably been born in this river, it's taken a long time to get to this stage where they're reproducing in the river, and now they've just, in 24 hours, been wiped out.”
“Fish stocks in the Colne were only just recovering from an earlier chemical leak at Slaithwaite in March 2008.”
“Mourners in Pakistan have buried the 93 victims of co-ordinated attacks by gunmen on two mosques of the minority Ahmadi Islamic sect in Lahore.”
“Three militants later blew themselves up and two were captured.”
“The attackers fired guns and threw grenades at worshippers during Friday prayers.”
“Pakistan's Geo TV channel said the Pakistani Taliban had claimed responsibility for the assaults.”
“While the Ahmadis consider themselves Muslim and follow all Islamic rituals, they were declared non-Muslim in Pakistan in 1973, and in 1984 they were legally barred from proselytising or identifying themselves as Muslims.”
“The UK government, Malawi's biggest donor, said it was dismayed by the sentencing, and the US labelled it a step backwards for human rights.”
“Many of Britain's former colonies have similar laws outlawing homosexuality; India overturned its anti-homosexuality law last year.”
“In Uganda, MPs are debating whether to strengthen the laws to include the death penalty for some gay people - a move which has infuriated Western governments and rights campaigners.”
“the conference did reach a consensus, unlike the last time, and a number of watered-down measures were agreed to seek ways of strengthening the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).”
“a proposal to hold a one-off conference in 2012 on setting up such a zone.”
“The next NPT review conference is in 2015.”
“at least it was stated that North Korea would not be recognised as a nuclear-weapons state”
“Some non-aligned countries had wanted sometime after 2025 as the target. There is no date in the document.”
“The US had pressed for countries leaving the NPT (as they can with three months' notice and as North Korea did) to face sanctions. This was not adopted”
“Iran was isolated in the talks and that the reference to Israel joining the NPT was 'anodyne.'”
“Egypt had 'hit Israel squarely on the jaw' and that the US had thrown Israel a 'sucker punch.'”
“Israel has already denounced the agreement as 'hypocrisy'.”
“Mr Obama came out with a statement afterwards that spoke of the US being 'strongly opposed' to efforts to 'single out Israel' but he did not use the veto available to him.”
“It is good that there was an outcome,' said Mark Fitzpatrick of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. 'It restores the consensus about the importance of the NPT, which had been unravelling. The NPT was in danger and …”
“However it doesn't move the ball forward or strengthen the NPT and is therefore a missed opportunity.”
“Iran was not named, despite being in violation of instructions both from the IAEA, which administers the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, and the Security Council that it should suspend the enrichment of uranium.”
“It was ready to stop a consensus. The US was not.”
“Arab countries, led skilfully by Egypt, managed to manoeuvre the US into agreeing to a Middle East conference. Washington did not want to be blamed for wrecking the talks.”
“Another is that there is not much immediate hope of getting the stronger inspections of nuclear plants that the US wanted.”
“Indeed, there has been some progress over the past year, with a new agreement between Russia and the United State as an example.”
“Or that cutting emissions 80% is the only way to save the planet?”
“We came to Selling intending to stay for a weekend but Mr Brando loved it so much we stayed for nearly six months”
“Ms Barrett, who lives in Los Angeles, said the village, near Faversham, was a favourite haunt of Brando, who died in 2004 at the age of 80”
“Ms Barrett, who still visits the area twice a year”
“The bridge was completed 18 days after Workington was hit by flooding”
“The 170ft (52 metre) bridge across the River Derwent was built by the Corps of Royal Engineers.”
“When it opened to the public in December, it was the first time since the floods that people in Workington were able to cross the river, other than by rail.”
“Mohammad says that for nine years in the 80s and 90s he infiltrated the Palestinian militant group, Tanzim, in Hebron.”
“"I saved lives," says the 41-year-old father of three children.”
“In the last two decades several men, accused of being collaborators, have been executed by Palestinian authorities in Gaza and the West Bank.”
“Yet it's thought that every year hundreds, perhaps even thousands of Palestinian men and women still help Israel by passing on information.”
“"Collaborators and informants - there may be as many as 5,000 of them - are very important to Israel," the lawyer told me...”
“Only last month two accused collaborators were executed in Hamas-controlled Gaza.”
“Port officials have confiscated 26,000 euros, which they found inside a woman's bra as she arrived on a ferry from Dublin.”
“Earlier this month, the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) announced the 500 euro note would no longer be available over the counter in the UK.”
“It followed evidence that more than 90% of UK demand for it was linked to criminality.”
“UK Border Agency officers are working hard at all our ports to prevent drugs, contraband or the potential proceeds of crime from entering or leaving the UK.”
“Mary Fox, 59, died in a fire in Bodmin, Cornwall, on Bonfire Night.”
“Four fire crews and a search and rescue team were called to the cottage at 1050 BST on Thursday.”
“The blaze engulfed 70% of the house”
“a post mortem examination will take place early next week”
“He spent 20 years living and working in Europe before returning to Ghana in 1992.”
“I'm finding now that younger people want to go away maybe to university, but then come back after gaining some experience. They're not working for years and coming back when they're decrepit.”
“Of the more than 1.1 million Ghanaians who left the country between 2000-2007, only 153,000 did not return either temporarily or permanently.”
“An African Journey with Jonathan Dimbleby can be seen on BBC Two on Sundays at 2100 BST from 30 May”
“Sixteen churches across Yorkshire are to benefit from £1.67m of funding from English Heritage and the Heritage Lottery Fund.”
“The biggest sum, £199,000, will go to St John the Evangelist Church in Whitby, North Yorkshire.”
“St Andrew's Church in Ulrome is the only church in the East Riding of Yorkshire to benefit. It is to receive £86,000.”
“Eight churches in West Yorkshire, including St Cuthbert's in Birkby, Huddersfield, Hope Baptist Church in Hebden Bridge and St Mark's Church in Woodhouse, Leeds, are all getting funds.”
“St Luke's in New Rossington, Doncaster, Sacred Heart Church in Sheffield, St Peter's Church in Hoyland, Barnsley, and Bullhouse Chapel in Penistone are the buildings to benefit in South Yorkshire.”
“As well as the St John the Evangelist, two other churches - St Mary's in Arkengarthdale and All Saints Church in Slingsby - will get cash in North Yorkshire.”
“Trevor Mitchell of English Heritage said: "These are vital grants aiming to nip problems in the bud before they cause far greater damage.”
“He said: "Our most important mission here is to protect the Afghan people; inadvertently killing or injuring civilians is heartbreaking and undermines their trust and confidence in our mission. We will do all we can to regain that trust."”
“The botched strike happened despite Gen McChrystal's introduction of much tougher rules of engagement in a bid to minimise such casualties.”
“Eight businesses and up to 15 flats were destroyed or severely damaged by the fire, but no-one was injured.”
“At its height nearly 100 firefighters from across Devon fought to control the fire.”
“The Tudor buildings date back to the early 16th Century and some are English Heritage Grade I and Grade II listed.”
“He said: "The German advance through France only began on 10 May, so Vice Admiral Bertram Ramsay had little more than a fortnight to put together operation Dynamo."”
“However her luck eventually ran out when she was sunk on 1 June 1940.”
“She returned after the war to operate excursions on the Bristol Channel until 1959 and was scrapped in 1960.”
“Three other P&A Campbell paddle steamers which had operated in the Bristol Channel, the Devonia, Brighton Queen and Brighton Belle, were not so lucky as they were all sunk at the time.”
“Mike Mason, from Trellech, in Monmouthshire, a marine history enthusiast, said: "Despite having had her hull penetrated by an enemy shell, the Glen Gower managed to make it back to Harwich, having rescued hundreds of servicemen from the be…”
“The Devonia, in particular, was left stranded and abandoned on the beach at Dunkirk.”
“Captain Bill Steer, whose family live in Williamstown, Rhondda Cynon Taf, was among the last to leave, and was mentioned in dispatches for his bravery.”
“"He and a handful of others were pretty much the last people to make it off the beach alive, rowing away in a metal lifeboat!"”
“The German advance through France only began on 10 May, so Vice Admiral Bertram Ramsay had little more than a fortnight to put together operation Dynamo.”
“Despite having had her hull penetrated by an enemy shell, the Glen Gower managed to make it back to Harwich, having rescued hundreds of servicemen from the beaches at Dunkirk.”
“He and a handful of others were pretty much the last people to make it off the beach alive, rowing away in a metal lifeboat!”
“The Royal Welsh regiment was given the freedom of Newport in 2001.”
“At that event, the families of Pte James Prosser and Pte Richard Hunt were presented with the Elizabeth Cross, the decoration in the Queen's name awarded to the next of kin of armed services personnel, in a mark of national recognition of …”
