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| 1 | Bootle-born Shirli-Ann Siddall has been given a wildcard entry . |
| 2 | Borg has been given a wild card for this week 's Nice Open and next week 's Monte Carlo Open . |
| 3 | CEREDIGION and Pembroke North MP Cynog Dafis has been given a Greenhouse award by Green Magazine after being voted the best newcomer to Parliament . |
| 4 | Marples has been given a free transfer by manager John Ward , even though he still has a year of his contract to go . |
| 5 | All in all , Mo had been given a pretty torrid time by the nation 's voters . |
| 6 | A RESEARCH unit at the North East Wales Institute of Higher Education in Wrexham has been given a £130,000 boost by a funding body . |
| 7 | A JUDGE nicknamed Zorro has been given a wigging for kissing a pretty court usher . |
| 8 | Gould had been given a number of letters of introduction to the veteran explorer from , among others , George Bank , who had accompanied Franklin on one of his Arctic expeditions , and Captain John Washington , secretary of the Royal Geographical Society . |
| 9 | To the Ryans and their like , Anthony had been given a magnificent send-off . |
| 10 | England had been given a pre-match boost by World Cup rivals Holland 's failure to beat group two leaders Norway in Rotterdam . |
| 11 | He 's known as a bit of a smoothie but Nigel Havers has been given a harder edge in his new series , Sleepers , starting next week . |
| 12 | The Marquis of Blandford has been given a conditional discharge for possessing a twelve-bore shot-gun without a licence . |
| 13 | Soccer coaching for girls in Bristol has been given a boost from British Gas South Western . |
| 14 | The club 's former accountant Vince Farrar has been given a six months suspended sentence . |
| 15 | Emma was experimenting with atonal motifs on a xylophone and Vicky had been given a doll but had pulled the arm off . |
| 16 | THE bogus doctor who ran clinics in Ulster has been given a two week reprieve before she knows her fate . |
| 17 | A CLEAN sweep at the Treasury , where Norman Lamont has been given a whole new team of ministers . |
| 18 | To this end , Ixos has been given a preliminary version of NT already . |
| 19 | THREE welfare organisations in West Cumbria have been given a tremendous boost , thanks to the golfers who took part in last year 's Sellafield Pro-Am golf tournament . |
| 20 | Experienced Carrick Rangers defender Neil Cummings has been given a free transfer . |
| 21 | MARK Hateley has been given a long-awaited second chance by England . |
| 22 | Watson had been given a hard time from the Wednesday crowd before those goals but is now hoping the tide has turned . |
| 23 | That 's the thing , the thing is like , and like er , he 's Billy 's been given a lot of scope though , erm , to just go out and do his own thing and he thinks like a , as a , I was speaking to like his er course tutor and it is erm Councillor and Katie was saying that Billy thinks that because he 's got , he 's got this , this wee job now that like , he 's er he 's the street cred you know , he 's cool . |
| 24 | Linfield have been given a lifeline courtesy of Tbilisi 's shameful dismissal from the tournament and let's hope they grasp it with both hands . |
| 25 | Turtle breeding beaches in western Cyprus have been given a breathing space by the decision of the government to freeze development in the area for one year . |
| 26 | BG has been given a year to complete feasibility studies on the gas-fired scheme with an associated desalination plant which is geared to expected growth in demand for power and water . |
| 27 | Barcelona gold medallists Steve Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent have been given a boost for their 1996 Olympic hopes … by an American sportswear firm . |
| 28 | Large domestic pots at West Stow had been given a thin coating of day on the outside after they had been fired ; this layer is usually slightly reddened as a result of partial firing ( West 1985 , p. 129 ) . |
| 29 | Earlier in 1959 , Yulo Tsering had been given a life sentence for taking part in the Tibetan revolution of that year . |
| 30 | Charles had been given a view of the plans some months before and had been appalled . |