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Gordon Proctor defied his age by walking the New Brighton shoreline in the mornings to stay fit enough to keep up with the demands of his gardening. The 92-year-old became an icon in the Christchurch seaside suburb and garnered national attention when his neighbours tried to stop him from selling seedlings by setting sprinklers on him. |
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Salt Lake Tribune hopes its new status as a nonprofit will ensure its long-term viability in an industry in crisis — and other newspapers suffering amid the same declines in advertising and circulation revenues are expected to be watching closely. |
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Salt Lake Tribune hopes its new status as a nonprofit will ensure its long-term viability in an industry in crisis — and other newspapers suffering amid the same declines in advertising and circulation revenues are expected to be watching closely. |
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Salt Lake Tribune hopes its new status as a nonprofit will ensure its long-term viability in an industry in crisis — and other newspapers suffering amid the same declines in advertising and circulation revenues are expected to be watching closely. |
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He was a showman, Gay Byrne , first and foremost, but he was a showman in Ireland, and that made all the difference. He made his name with a national broadcaster that was set up primarily to make the Irish people submit to government. That, in Byrne’s earliest years with RTÉ, meant that fear of the.... |
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One of the great ironies about Gay Byrne is that, while so many believe he was the wedge which opened a narrow, insular Ireland to the wider world, he himself remained the boy shaped by a very traditional Irish Catholic upbringing. He was a creation of those two immovable forces which shaped so many.... |
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Standards of living for most of the region’s peoples have vastly improved, and most of them know it. New polling by the Pew Research Centre shows that 81% of Poles, 78% of Czechs and 55% of Hungarians agree that this is the case. Only Bulgarians on balance take a gloomy view, with just 32% of them.... |
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A love-sick prince — bewitched by a slightly older, previously married woman of indisputable glamour — conducts a furtive courtship far from the gaze of his father and disapproving courtiers. Sound familiar? Buckingham Palace is about to turn a royal scandal to its advantage. |
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Inimma-IS/iStock OLORON-SAINTE-MARIE, France. ) — Thieves used a tree trunk strapped to a car to smash the door of the Cathedral of Oloron-Sainte-Marie in the South of France, on Nov. 3, stealing valuables, some dating back to the 16th century. The car was rigged with a large tree trunk on its front.... |
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It has a reputation of over-the-top champagne, canapes and selfies but this year, On the surface, the Birdcage, the jewel in the crown of the members areas at Flemington, has had a spruce: a fancy new "pink carpet" entrance, more greenery, a bar in the shape of an actual bird cage and a record 48 plumbed toilets. |
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FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) - A broadcaster sued for defamation by Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax after airing interviews from two women accusing him of sexual assault said in court papers that his lawsuit is an attempt to silence his accusers. CBS Broadcasting Inc. |
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