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“These included, he said, capping staff numbers, cutting the number of public bodies by a quarter and reducing the bill for travel and other operational costs.”
“These included, he said, capping staff numbers, cutting the number of public bodies by a quarter...”
“About 200,000 leaflets and posters will be handed out to warn people of the danger of borrowing money from illegal, and sometimes violent, lenders.”
“It is thought these areas contain about half the 165,000 homes in Britain who borrow cash from loan sharks.”
“the UK adopted 40 new European regulations”
“almost a third of the regulatory burden came from European Union directives last year”
“the temperature in Eyjafjallajokull's crater appears to have fallen to 100C, meaning it is now producing steam, not magma.”
“The Icelandic volcano which has been disrupting air traffic for more than a month is showing a marked drop in activity”
“Ash clouds from the volcano grounded thousands of flights last month.”
“the previous eruption at the volcano had lasted 13 months, from 1821-23.”
“affected at least 10 million passengers worldwide.”
“The total number of participants in the five most popular sports is more than 40 million in the USA alone, according to a report by Global Industry Analysts.”
“Two times European surf champion Spencer Hargraves has been a professional for more than 20 years and has watched his industry change beyond all recognition.”
“Research by Mintel shows that about 6% of the UK population express an interest in extreme sports, but only 1% actually participate.”
“The government set up the Chinese Extreme Sports Association and last year completed an extreme sports park in Beijing, in which it invested $22m.”
“In Europe, there's an event pretty much every weekend, ranging from kids from the age of 10 up to adult level.”
“In the UK 6% of people have shown an interest in extreme sports”
“Soon after meeting President Castro, Cardinal Ortega told reporters the Church was interested in 'some kind of relief in the situation of the prisoners, which could include the freeing of some of them'.”
“The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti is investigating reports that dozens of prisoners were shot during a jail riot soon after the 19 January earthquake.”
“The newspaper said the riot started when some of the 467 inmates tried to escape from the overcrowded jail in Les Cayes, Haiti's third biggest city.”
“The New York Times said it appeared 12 to 19 prisoners had been killed and up to 40 wounded by gunshots.”
“A UN spokesman, David Wimhurst, told AP news agency that the UN had opened an internal inquiry and that a more extensive formal inquiry was possible.”
“The measures came less than a week after experts from the US, the UK, Australia and Sweden said in a report that a torpedo had hit the ship.”
“Mrs Clinton told a US-China summit in Beijing that Pyongyang must be held to account for the attack on the Cheonan.”
“their sports car fell 270ft (82m) down a ravine in Powys”
“The BMW car hit a tree and bounced at least twice to land on all four wheels in a plunge pool.”
“The alert was raised at around 1140 BST after a crash involving two vehicles, one of which left the road.”
“Around 25 firefighters from Mid and West Wales Fire Service were involved in the operation to reach the couple.”
“It landed on all four wheels in just the right place - six feet either side and they would not have survived.”
“In 25 years in mountain rescue, I have never seen anything like this and find it incredible that anyone survived this crash, let alone that they were relatively unhurt.”
“Al-Shabab militants have fired mortars at Somalia's presidential palace, sparking deadly battles in which at least 14 people have died.”
“Among the dead were five members of a single family killed when a mortar landed on their house, a Mogadishu resident told the AFP news agency, saying he had seen the bodies.”
“A woman has claimed she was approached near a health centre in Glasgow by three women who offered her £200 if she agreed to be sterilised.”
“Ms Wilson said the offer was made as she left Possilpark Health Centre with her nine-year-old son on Friday.”
“Ms Wilson said the women told her they were from Project Prevention, a US group which pays drug addicts to be voluntarily sterilised.”
“Then I saw a bit of paper in her hand and it had drug addicts written on it.”
“Ms Wilson, a mother-of-two, said she was shaken by the incident.”
“Project Prevention's website states that its aim is to reduce the number of 'substance-exposed' births to zero.”
“China has pledged to continue reforms to its exchange rate policies at the beginning of high level trade talks with the US.”
“Speaking at the opening of the talks, President Hu Jintao said he would seek "gradual progress" on reforming the exchange rate of the Chinese yuan.”
“The US argues China's currency policy unfairly favours its exporters.”
“China is North Korea's closest ally, and has so far refrained from openly criticising its actions.”
“"China will continue to steadily advance the reform of the formation of the... exchange rate mechanism under the principle of independent decision-making, controllability and gradual progress," President Hu said.”
“We welcome the fact that China's leaders have recognised that reform of the exchange rate is an important part of their broader reform agenda," Mr Geithner said.”
“158 bodies had been recovered but that 12 remained unidentified, burnt beyond recognition.”
“killing 158.”
“One man, Samir Sheikh, lost 16 family members who were travelling to India to attend the funeral of his grandmother”
“India's air safety record has been good in the past decade, despite a rapid increase in the number of private airlines and air travel in the country.”
“It is India's first major air disaster in nearly 10 years.”
“The Air India Express Boeing 737 overshot Mangalore airport's hilltop runway and crashed into a valley, bursting into flames and killing 158.”
“Arvind Jadhav, chairman of Air India, told reporters in Mangalore on Sunday that 158 bodies had been recovered but that 12 remained unidentified, burnt beyond recognition.”
“One man, Samir Sheikh, lost 16 family members who were travelling to India to attend the funeral of his grandmother, according to the Dubai-based newspaper Khaleej Times.”
“Prince William ... joined 20,000 at Radio 1 Big Weekend”
“The BBC held a "lottery" for the 40,000 tickets, with many going to people living in the local area.”
“Prince William brought a royal flavour to Radio 1's Big Weekend festival in Bangor, when he and girlfriend Kate Middleton joined 20,000 music fans.”
“Florence and the Machine played for nearly an hour to end the first day.”
“The BBC held a 'lottery' for the 40,000 tickets, with many going to people living in the local area.”
“Publicity for the event has been great, especially as things have been happening in the area all week.”
“Overnight, 8,000 plots of earth have been brought into central Paris, and on Sunday morning, from the Arc de Triomphe down, the Champs-Elysees is one vast green space.”
“Some 150,000 plants have been installed - including 650 fully grown trees - representing agricultural produce from the marshes of the Camargue to the plains of Picardy, our correspondent adds.”
“The event, which cost 4.2m euros (£3.6m; $5.3m) to stage”
“the union, which represents some 55,000 farmers under the age of 35”
“Overnight, 8,000 plots of earth have been brought into central Paris”
“Some 150,000 plants have been installed - including 650 fully grown trees”
“More than a million people are expected to visit over the next two days.”
“Overnight, 8,000 plots of earth have been brought into central Paris,”
“some 32,000 landings had taken place on Mangalore's runway.”
“left 158 people dead.”
“There were thought to be 20 children on board the Air India Express flight.”
“One of the runways was extended in 2006 to accommodate larger planes like the Boeing 737.”
“The last major crash happened in the city of Patna in July 2000, killing at least 50 people.”
“World leaders have paid tribute to the victims of Saturday's plane crash in southern India that left 158 people dead.”
“at least 19 people killed and 71 injured”
“at 0210 (1810 GMT)”
“the locomotive and eight of the 17 carriages appear to have overturned”
“More than 280 passengers were evacuated from the train and 53 had been freed from the wreckage as of 0900 local time on Sunday.”
“each carriage had had 118 seats and four of them had been 'severely damaged'”
“About 8,000 cu m (10,460 cu yds) of mud and rock have been cleared from the tracks.”
“More than 40,000 residents in the area have been evacuated as a result of the flooding.”
“In addition to the strike due to start at midnight, two further five-day walkouts by Unite members are scheduled to begin on 30 May and 5 June.”
“Talks were brought to an abrupt end on Saturday evening when left-wing protesters gatecrashed the venue where negotiations were being held.”
“The replacement boilers will save around 5,600 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year, the equivalent to taking between 1,700 to 2,000 cars off the road, according to the Scottish government.”
“A scheme giving householders £400 off the cost of a new boiler is due to be launched in Scotland.”
“From Monday, the cash will be offered to the first 5,000 households applying to replace inefficient boilers.”
“have the new model installed within 12 weeks of applying.”
“with 700,000 visitors since the opening just under a month ago.”
“Just over 400,000 people have visited the Russian pavilion.”
“70 million people in total over six months.”
“Traditional Iranian music performances were also on offer six times a day.”
“for the 31 Chinese provinces.”
“The US secretary of state personally helped raise money for the pavilion last year, pleading with US companies to donate the $61m (£42m) needed to build the structure and the exhibit.”
“But it appears to be a success in China and is one of the most visited at the fair, with 700,000 visitors since the opening just under a month ago.”
“It is expected the fair will receive 70 million people in total over six months.”
“Mrs Clinton will discuss that relationship with Chinese officials in Beijing on Monday and Tuesday, during the second US-Chinese Strategic and Economic Dialogue.”
“To have six or seven million young Chinese to file through our pavilion is an opportunity that we would otherwise never be able to achieve in public diplomacy, at least not traditional public diplomacy.”
“"Kandahar airfield came under indirect fire at approximately eight o'clock (1530 GMT) tonight and shortly afterward a ground attack was under way as well"”
“Afghan contractors said five rockets struck the base, including one which hit the helicopter base and another which targeted a shopping area.”
“The base, which sits on the edge of Kandahar city, the provincial capital, houses around 23,000 personnel and regularly comes under attack.”
“The Church of Scotland has backed plans to cut the number of ministers in a bid to tackle a £5.7m funding gap.”
“Its General Assembly approved the plans after being warned the institution would run out of money within a decade if the situation was not addressed.”
