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“We're training trust volunteers to help carry out local water vole surveys.”
“Other species such as bats, otters, aquatic invertebrates, birds and even great crested newts, thought to be present in the area of the lake, will also benefit from the agency's habitat work.”
“A number of other projects are taking place in Wales, in areas such as Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion, to improve life for the water vole.”
“At 0500 BST, about 30 seconds after an on-screen message saying UK viewers were watching Lost: Live from the US - its first and last simultaneous UK/US broadcast - another screen popped up reading Temporary Fault.”
“Anticipated because in the six years since Lost began, it has had the power to enthral and infuriate in equal measure.”
“The Man In Black (he never even got a name) certainly got a bit of a raw deal when goody-two shoes Jacob threw him into the light source some two thousand years earlier, robbing him both of his body and his humanity.”
“in the six years since Lost began”
“some two thousand years earlier”
“episode one”
“Sophie, who beat nine others to make it into the final two of the TV show on Saturday, told BBC Radio Wales on Monday...”
“Sophie admitted she had been 'very emotional' during the final, and that nerves had finally got to her. 'They've stayed away for most of the weeks but in the final I just felt the pressure.'”
“For the teenager Over the Rainbow proved a tough experience... living away from home for the first time had enabled to learn to do everything for herself. 'I had to cook, clean things I've never done before.'”
“The Allied Special Forces Association said it needed to raise £25,000 for an oak shelter at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire.”
“Mr Colton said he was confident of meeting the target as £1,200 had already been pledged towards the memorial.”
“The shelter is planned for Remembrance Sunday”
“Association founder and secretary Mike Colton said he hoped the shelter would be built in time for Remembrance Sunday.”
“A film from Chad - A Screaming Man - has received the third-place Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.”
“It was the first film from sub-Saharan Africa in 13 years to be chosen for the festival's main honours.”
“The festival's top award, the Palme d'Or, went to a mystical film from Thailand - Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives.”
“It beat British director Mike Leigh's Another Year, which was seen as the favourite by many observers.”
“Last week, the opening at Cannes of a film about the Algerian civil war by French-Algerian director Rachid Bouchareb prompted hundreds of people to demonstrate, claiming the film is biased against France.”
“The last few remains of a human skeleton sit ominously close to the entrance - but that is not why the scientists are here. ... This is when a hunk of land attached to the great landmass that today forms North America broke away, taking wi…”
“But just 11 million years after it slowly began to drift away from the supercontinent, devastation hit nearby. A colossal space rock, 10-15km across, smashed into the Earth at the northern edge of what is now the Yucatan Peninsula, wiping …”
“Before humans arrived, there were about 25 land mammals on the island.”
“But one by one they died out, leaving only the solenodon and a rodent called the The Last Survivors Hispaniolan hutia, external as the last mammals standing.”
“But stop the clock at 6,000 years ago, and suddenly the plucky mammal had to contend with one of the biggest threats to Caribbean fauna to date - humans.”
“In his extensive trawls through caves like this one, Dr Turvey has noticed a strange anomaly - a lack of solenodon bones. He has only found a couple of tiny fragments of ancient solenodons, despite months and months of searching.”
“When Christopher Columbus arrived in Hispaniola in 1492, rats began to leap off his ships onto the island, causing havoc.”
“Whereas the solenodon, which is close to rabbit-sized, probably had fewer problems with rats thanks to its heftier bulk.”
“Alan, from Reigate, Surrey, was a TV regular from the 1950s to the 1980s, appearing on shows including variety serial The Good Old Days.”
“In later years he was an entertainer on QE2 cruises, taking a break from showbusiness in 2008 due to ill health.”
“His agent Peter Pritchard, who worked with him for 30 years, said: "Technically he was regarded as Britain's top ventriloquist. You couldn't see his mouth moving."”
“In 1954 he worked with Laurel and Hardy after fellow ventriloquist Harry Worth was forced to pull out of a show.”
“Ray Alan has died suddenly at the age of 79, his agent has announced.”
“he was a TV regular from the 1950s to the 1980s, appearing on shows including variety serial The Good Old Days.”
“taking a break from showbusiness in 2008 due to ill health.”
“Peter Pritchard, who worked with him for 30 years”
“We have over 100 acts across eight stages with our aim being to make the Wickerman one of the most eclectic on the festival circuit.”
“The event, held at East Kirkcarswell Farm, near Kirkcudbright on the 23 and 24 July, is now in its ninth year.”
“About 15,000 revellers are expected to gather for the event which has grown in size steadily since the first one in 2002.”
“About 15,000 revellers are expected to gather for the event”
“The event, held at East Kirkcarswell Farm, near Kirkcudbright on the 23 and 24 July”
“Japan, a country not known for its sheep, will be among 27 nations vying for shearing honours at this year's Royal Welsh Show.”
“The competitors will shear about 5,000 animals in pursuit of the top prize at the show in July.”
“Mr Peres has 'categorically denied' the alleged discussions took place”
“Documents to be published in a new book show Israel agreed to give South Africa nuclear weapons in 1975, the Guardian newspaper has reported.”
“There was "no basis, no foundation in reality" for the reports”
“"Israel did not conduct any negotiations for the sale of nuclear weapons to South Africa and none of the aforementioned documents are original signed Israeli documents that confirm the existence of such talks of such negotiations."”
“The Federation of American Scientists estimates Israel could have produced up to 200 nuclear weapons.”
“They developed their own nuclear weapons programme, which was dismantled between 1983 and 1993.”
“The secret documents were declassified by the post-apartheid South African government.”
“They refer to an offer of Israeli weapons "in three sizes" this is thought to refer to conventional, biological and nuclear weapons.”
“The original documents state the "very existence of this agreement" were classified as "secret and shall not to be disclosed by either party".”
“The Guardian reported that the previously secret documents, unearthed by American academic Sasha Polakor-Suransky, provided the first official documentary evidence of the existence of Israeli nuclear weapons.”
“in 1986 Israeli nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu revealed details of a nuclear reactor in Israel.”
“Two American tourists have been kidnapped by armed tribesmen near Yemen's capital, Sanaa, officials say.”
“More than 200 foreigners have been kidnapped in recent years; most are released unharmed.”
“Two Chinese oil workers were freed this month after being kidnapped in the south-east of the country.”
“Since April 2010, a child eligible for Disability Living Allowance also gets a yearly top-up of £100, or £200 if the child has a severe disability.”
“Mordechai Vanunu, the technician who revealed that Israel had nuclear weapons, has begun a three-month jail term for violating the terms of his release in 2004.”
“Mr Vanunu spent 18 years in jail for revealing the existence of the clandestine Israeli nuclear programme.”
“With the UK more than a year behind their Irish neighbours in slashing public spending, Mr McCarthy warns that the cold, dead hand of the markets is waiting to punish any perceived fiscal under-achievement.”
“Up to two million people died under the Khmer Rouge, which ruled Cambodia from 1975-1979.”
“Hopefully it (the verdict) will be a turning point for the people of Cambodia who have waited for more than 30 years to see someone from the Khmer Rouge brought to justice,”
“Monjack attended the Academy Awards earlier this year”
“"My world was destroyed yesterday," Simon Monjack told Access Hollywood after the death of his wife, who starred in Clueless, 8 Mile and Just Married.”
“More than 40,000 people are believed to have died in the conflict, on both sides.”
“Louise McGrinder said her brother was forced to leave Londonderry two years ago following threats from the group Republican Action Against Drugs.”
“they said whilst they were leaving '24 hours to get out, or he'll be shot dead.”
“He had two broken wrist and a broken elbow, he has three gunshots wounds,”
“24 hours to get out, or he'll be shot dead.”
“August of last year”
“Metal band Poison scored eight hits in the UK between 1988 and 1993”
“A runner collapsed and died during the Edinburgh Marathon races on Sunday, one of the hottest days of the year so far.”
“Douglas MacFarlane, 52, from Edinburgh, fell during the first leg of the team relay race, one of the events taking place alongside the main marathon.”
“Mr MacFarlane collapsed in Musselburgh Road at about 1225 BST”
“Temperatures reached about 25C (77F) as more than 16,000 runners took part.”
“Of the 16,822 runners who took part in the marathon, half marathon and relay race, 242 runners were treated at medical points along the circuit.”
“Eight people were taken to hospital.”
“At least four forged Australian passports were used in the killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai in January.”
“The UK took similar action in March, after concluding that Israel was responsible for the use of forged UK passports in the plot.”
“Dubai officials have said they are 99.9% sure that agents from Mossad were responsible.”
“As a result Foreign Minister Stephen Smith asked Israel to withdraw a diplomat, whom he did not identify”
“Passports from France, Ireland, Germany and Britain were used in the operation”
“More than 18,000 young people living in Northern Ireland have felt suicidal, a charity has suggested.”
“In a new report - A Manifesto for Disadvantaged Young People - the Prince's Trust said more than 52,000 young people in NI were not in employment, education or training.”
“Of those, more than a third said they had felt suicidal.”
“Eye on Wales is on BBC Radio Wales at 1830 BST on Monday 24 May.”
“Among the cuts the Department of Culture, Media and Sport confirmed that Welsh-language broadcaster S4C would suffer a £2m cut in its funding this year.”
“On 10 June 1940, Benito Mussolini declared war on Britain”
“It resulted almost immediately in the decision to intern thousands of Italian men over the age of 16 who were resident in the UK”
“"Collar the lot!" was reputed to have been the message from Prime Minister Winston Churchill”
“On 2 July 1940 it was struck by a torpedo from a German U-boat resulting in the death of more than 400 Italians on board”
“This year is the 70th anniversary of those dates which had such a profound effect on Italians in Britain”
“about 75% of the country's internationally-important pearl mussel sites have been damaged by criminals”
“Scotland has a total of 21 designated sites for pearl mussels”
“Scottish rivers holding about half of the world's population of the species”
“The mussels are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981”
“Unauthorised engineering in one river seems to have destroyed the most significant pearl mussel bed of around 900 animals in the lower reaches of the river”
“Another site has seen the killing, in less than a day, of 50% of the mussels in the burn - making any recovery from the remaining animals extremely difficult”
