Feb 20
the proposed incinerator site at Saddlebow. Picture: Ian Burt. An Anglo-US waste consortium hoping to build a controversial incinerator on the edge of King’s Lynn has awarded a civil engineering contract for the scheme, it was announced today. Cory Wheelabrator has selected Shipdham-based BAM Nuttall to carry out the civil engineering work for the £500m …
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Feb 16
Copyright © 2012 National Public Radio®. for personal, noncommercial use only. see Terms of use. for other uses, prior permission required. RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: Here’s something that’s functioning as a hot button this campaign season – food stamps. last week in Nevada, Newt Gingrich not only blamed President Obama for a huge expansion of the …
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Feb 14
When I first started duck hunting back in 1997, I realized quickly that it’s pretty much impossible to keep a Federal Duck Stamp in good condition for an entire season of wading through timber swamps and slip-sliding across muddy rice fields. I love a good collection, and I wanted a clean copy of each year’s …
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Feb 02
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – a 50-year-old Deer River woman is accused from stealing $100,000 from the city’s Department of Motor Vehicle services where she worked, according to charges filed Tuesday by the Itasca County Attorney’s Office. Sheila Marie Jerry was charged with one felony count of theft in connection with the incidents, which started March 31, …
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Jan 17
Each title listed below will go on sale beginning Tuesday, January 17 unless otherwise indicated. Click on any LISTEN link to listen to a free, streaming version of the entire album (typically, available only during the week of release); streaming links go to AOL Music unless otherwise indicated. The week’s most noteworthy releases are starred. …
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Jan 16
Here is a fresh challenge for the World in London team: San Marino - one of Europe’s smallest countries. does London have anything fascinating and Sammarinese to feature in our World in London blog? of course it does. We turned to Jenny Karlsson at the British Postal Museum and Archive for this latest foray into London’s …
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Dec 08
WIL, Switzerland–(BUSINESS WIRE)–There is no recession in rare stamps and coins. a few thousand of the rarest and finest items came under the hammer at the Rapp auction house in Wil (rapp-auktionen.com) from 22 to 24 November, fetching a total of 12.6 million Swiss francs*. Coins and medals changed hands for more than 2.8 million …
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Dec 08
A TRADITION • For generations, the 100 NeediestCases campaign has helped thousands of disadvantaged familiesduring the holidays. the tradition dates to 1922, when civicleaders formed the Christmas Bureau. The Post-Dispatch has partnered with the program for more thanfive decades, renaming the campaign 100 Neediest Cases in 1954.Annual donations to the campaign have swollen from $400 …
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Nov 29
A Dutch citizen held by DPRK authorities during the summer of 2011 has given a media interview about his detention. Willem van der Bijl, a Utrecht shop owner and stamp collector, was detained and interrogated by the north’s Ministry of State Security for nearly two weeks from 29 July to 12 August. Van der Bijl …
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Nov 24
English The tax evasion trial of prominent rights defender Ales Byalyatski will resume in Minsk on November 10. At Friday’s court session, mr. Byalyatski`s lawyer, Dzmitry Layewski, asked the judge to send the case back to the Financial Investigations Department of the State Control Committee, saying that investigators had failed to establish the purposes for …
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