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1 On the livestock side Stuart Ashworth warned that beef producers should brace themselves for a cut in the Beef Special Premium ‘ the base for Scotland is 244,000 male animals but there will be at least 300,000 head this year so we can anticipate a cut of somewhere in the region of 20-25 per cent in BSP payments .
2 One of the most disgraceful international aspects of what is going on in Bosnia is that Western leaders , including our own , seem to be accepting the escalating Serbian brutality , and its consequences of carnage , rape , starvation and terror as if it were inevitable and beyond their combined capacities for effective reaction or remedy .
3 In some ways , however , Maidstone is several small prisons within one perimeter , for in addition to being a training prison it has two special functions .
4 As the most common cause of death in El Salvador is preventable gastric disorders , health education and technical improvements to the water systems can be astoundingly effective in improving general levels of health …
5 Tokyo is encouraging Japanese companies to increase their research and to move out of Japan into Europe and the United States .
6 The Lake Vyrnwy Hotel in Montgomeryshire is welcoming rain-sodden guests with a free umbrella , rubber ducks in the bathroom and green-wellie soaps .
7 His letter continues : ‘ They [ the Government ] are therefore conceivably encouraging this sort of action in the Highlands as the view within the Highlands is that holiday-home owners should be surcharged . ’
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