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1 IPSWICH Town 's great rivals Norwich and Saturday 's FA Cup quarter-finals opponents Arsenal fought out a 1–1 draw at Carrow Road last night .
2 Hill sums up the 1992 housing market in one word — ‘ weird ’ .
3 The Robinson twins of Coleraine battled out the 200 metre breast stroke for 14–15 years , and it was Louise who this time eclipsed Emma by five seconds .
4 Once again Skaller picked up the two pictures , but only the features of the other boy still held his glance .
5 Two players were sent off as BRIDGEND fought out a 12-12 draw at home to PONTYPRIDD .
6 His first major title — the Strachan Professional — received little publicity , but his 38-minute four-frame coup de grace on Parrott to wrap up a 9–3 win took him to fifth in the rankings and made anything seem possible .
7 Norman Carlin opened up an 11–2 lead against club lead Alan Lambert and went on to win well by 21–12 while Terry Clarke led all the way to beat John Allison comfortably 21–12 .
8 Former county champion Lindsay Taylor is fifth while Steven Souter , Jevon Chan and Steven Cooper make up the eight seeds .
9 Tom Cox and Lee Grant also scored as Colts built up a 6–0 lead .
10 Ripon opened up a 15–0 gap by the interval and scored tries through former British Lion Peter Squires and left winger Dave Watson ( 2 ) , one of which came from a breakaway .
11 Ripon opened up a 15–0 gap by the interval and scored tries through former British Lion Peter Squires and left winger Dave Watson ( 2 ) , one of which came from a breakaway .
12 Tom picked up the two whiskeys and manoeuvred Patrick into the corner , pushing him into the seat first so that he was up against the wall .
13 Taylor pressed up a 1,000 copies of the single in a fold-out sleeve .
14 Roared on by considerable vocal support , Matt Cook took his goal tally to eight with two more goals , and then set up Becky Ashdown to round off a 3–0 win .
15 Swail led 51-35 with only six colours remaining , but he fluffed opportunities to sink the green and brown before a bad safety shot on the blue allowed Hendry to run out a 60-51 victor .
16 Martha took out the two tiles and laid them in front of him .
17 The Easter Handicap Race of 1913 once again saw Jack winning over a 10 mile cross country course , once again flying his beloved Farman .
18 And did you see Ewan Beg take off the two heads at one stroke ?
19 Jonathan Speelman and Jan Timman rattled off a dozen moves each and Karpov and Artur Yusupov sped to move 15 .
20 Jay carries out a 30 gallon water change every three weeks and reckons his total maintenance for all 21 tanks averages out to about one hour per day .
21 TURPINS turned over a 1-0 interval deficit to beat Ambulance Services 3-1 in an exciting LCFA Intermediate Cup second round tie .
22 Foulds could only muster single figure totals in the next two as Doherty opened up a 2–1 lead .
23 On July 16 Havel read out a 1968 letter found in Moscow and sent to him by Russian President Boris Yeltsin , inviting Warsaw Pact forces into Prague .
24 On July 16 Havel read out a 1968 letter found in Moscow and sent to him by Russian President Boris Yeltsin , inviting Warsaw Pact forces into Prague .
25 Straight-sets singles victories by Clare Wood and Monique Javer in near-gale force conditions clinched the play-off clash before Julie Salmon and Amanda Grunfeld finished off a 3–0 rout in the doubles .
26 THE SEVERN Valley Railway Grand Diesel Extravaganza held over a three day period of May 8–10th was disrupted on the Saturday afternoon by a bomb scare .
27 Two draws by Pegg set up a 10-8 win , with Kormann being forced to attempt a draw to the two-foot from the frosty outside ice ; it slipped through to the back of the house .
28 During their reign , Altringham saw off a dozen League clubs , including First Division Birmingham , and took Everton and Spurs to replays .
29 Iain Reamhar wore out a dozen spoons .
30 Jimmy has a box of 0 cricket balls , each weighing 1 kg but he found that he had to take two out of the box to make it balance with a 40kg , weight , The equation which describes this balance would be : unc If Jimmy put back the two cricket balls into the box what would happen to the balance ?
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