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1 Having slugged it out with Rufus in the Bowmer & Kirkland Novices ' Chase , the lead swapping several times , he survived a blunder at the second last to power his way to a three and a half length victory .
2 The largest deal , however , was by a British company in The Netherlands , with Scottish & Newcastle Breweries ' acquisition of CentreParcs .
3 A full 12 years after ditching his civil service day job , TV 's Mr Sardonic is a ubiquitous face — having served his time on springboard improv workshop Whose Line Is It Anyway ? as The Other One ( or John Sessions ' bit of rough ) and co-written Julian Clary 's Sticky Moments , Merton soon reached the dizzy but inevitable heights of his own Channel 4 series .
4 Also , the date on the statement showed that Brooks Brothers ' computers were programmed to shorten the billing cycle .
5 It is an open economy in the technical sense that the ratios of both imports and exports to Gross Domestic product ( GDP ) have historically been high compared to other advanced industrial countries and in the broader sense that UK firms ' investments overseas are high , foreign firms ' ownership of UK enterprises is high , and the financial sector , the City , which is a major sector of the economy and dominates it in several ways , is essentially international in outlook .
6 Armed with a screwdriver in one hand and a bag of chips in the other , the staff of the Computer Co-ordination Section can be seen floating in and out of offices ensuring that Lothian Highways ' computers and peripherals operate efficiently .
7 Refs ' dinner RUGBY : THE Durham and Northumberland Referees ' Societies celebrate their centenaries next season and a centenary dinner is to be held at Newcastle Civic Centre on January 29 , 1993 .
8 The 100th anniversary of the start of the RNLI street collections was celebrated during the annual Shoreham Lifeboat Week , organised by the Shoreham and Lancing ladies ' guild and Shoreham Harbour lifeboat society .
9 NUAAW dates from 1906 when , in response to political victimization and tied cottage evictions in Norfolk , the Eastern Counties Agricultural Labourers ' and Small Holders ' Union was founded in North Walsham .
10 and support has come from the hospital doctors ' and NHS consultants ' associations .
11 A buffet lunch to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Sutton-on- Sea and Trusthorpe ladies ' guild was held at the Enterprise Club in March , attended by 72 supporters .
12 Terry , Harlow and Ash Residents ' Association .
13 The Under-21 squad , which plays at Millwall next Tuesday , is even more shorthanded after the withdrawals of Oldham goalkeeper Paul Gerrard , Newcastle 's Lee Clark and Bristol Rovers ' Marcus Stewart .
14 MARGARET Port , president of Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists ' Field Club , plants an oak tree in Green Park , Darlington , to mark the club 's centenary .
15 Members of the Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists ' Field Club have planted a tree in Green Park , Darlington .
16 Concern that the conflict would spread to the mainly Albanian-populated Serbian province of Kosovo was not assuaged by Yugoslav and Serb leaders ' rejection of Lord Carrington 's proposal for an international conference on Kosovo , made in Belgrade on July 21 .
17 Each entry will be judged by our panel of expert gardeners , including Nigel Colborn , author of Container Gardening , and BBC Gardeners ' World Magazine editor Adam Pasco .
18 For example , a classification may be based on skin-colour , as in the OPCS Labour Survey 's White and Non-white ; or on country of origin or descent , as in the Rampton and Swann Reports ' West Indian , Asian and Other ; or on a mixture of both , as in Eggleston et al. 's ( 1986 ) Afro-Caribbean , Asian and White ; or on country of birth of the head of household ( as in the 1981 Census ) , with such categories of country as the New Commonwealth and Pakistan .
19 Lining up tonight in the 450 metres event are the highly-rated Belle Vue racer No Joe Soap , Powderhall 's Rhincrew Legend , Dawn Milligan 's Smashiton , Sheffield-based Ragus and Gordon Rooks ' Movealong Sharp , which won three on the trot at the East Boldon circuit before losing on the run-in last week .
20 Georgina Grove 's retriever won the chocolate eating contest and the jumping awards went to Daphne Brown 's Tally and Melvyn Riddles ' Patch .
21 THE East Belfast and Castlereagh Childminders ' Group will hold its tenth anniversary party at the Joss Cardwell Centre ,
22 THE East Belfast and Castlereagh Childminders ' Group will meet on Tuesday , September 14 , at 7.30pm .
23 A : There is still a big gap between Wedgwood and Johnson Brothers ' products .
24 Anglo American Corporation of South Africa Limited ( ‘ Anglo ’ ) and De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited ( ‘ De Beers ’ ) by virtue of Anglo 's interest of more than one third of the equity share capital of Minorco and JCI , and De Beers ' interest of more than one third in the equity share capital of Anglo , are also taken to have an interest in these same shares .
25 Tom Walsh was , however , a speaker at the original Victoria and Albert Docks ' meeting and the sailors and firemen came out early in the strike in sympathy with the dockers .
26 It was organised by the All-China Women 's Federation and All-China Journalists ' Association under the auspices of UNESCO .
27 Starting after Easter , the ten-week course at the Nevilles Cross Centre and Darlington Teachers ' Centre gives adults a chance to try out new ways of learning maths .
28 For example , the Harter Act and Hague Rules ' defences of error in navigation or management of the vessel were eliminated , and replaced by liability for negligence in navigation or management .
29 The Barcelona Summer Institute , for example , counts towards the Institute of Education , London and Columbia Teachers ' College course/accreditations .
30 Both John Lehmann 's books and Ealing Studios ' film posters point up the fact that Minton was working in the last great era of illustration , before graphic means were ousted by photographic .
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