And all along the street we come to our windows to twitch the net curtains and face the awe-inspiring truth that is Magda in her lime-green thong.

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All along the high street, cash tills chirrup as foreign bags and trucks fill up with beer, furniture, vegetables, toasters and televisions.

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Mr. Berti, 54 years old, said all the stores along the main street of Davis were closed Tuesday and only pickup trucks with four-wheel drive were braving secondary roads.

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The traffic lights at the junctions with Victoria Road and Prince's Street on the A590 in Ulverston will all be upgraded, along with the lights at the pedestrian crossings at Swan Street in Ulverston, Swarthmoor and Lindal-in-Furness.

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Lloyds, along with all the other main High Street lenders, has had to set aside billions of pounds to cover the cost of payouts to home-buyers who had been mis-sold PPI along with their mortgage.

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The party plans include five days of fanfare, including All-Star players parading along 42nd Street on a massive red carpet, player appearances and baseball clinics at the Javits Center convention facility, and, of course, the annual home run derby at Citi Field.

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You nodded to the same faces in the elevators riding up to galleries all along 57th Street.

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Bank of America, Bank of New York Mellon, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, State Street and Wells Fargo are all on the initial SIFI list, along with four banks apiece for the U.K. and France, two from Germany and Switzerland, and a smattering from other countries in Europe.

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Those questions, some of the answers we may get in a statement in the House of Commons in the morning, but tonight along with all those families who are anxious, inside Whitehall, inside Downing Street, there is real deep concern.

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