Their families were presented with Hampshire Fire Service's Meritorious Medal for Gallantry at St Mary's fire station in the city earlier.

BBC: Jim Shears (left) and Alan Bannon

On a sunny spring morning students and teachers from all over south Texas made their way to the volunteer fire station that is all of Willow City, Texas where, armed with huge homemade rockets they were given final directions to a secluded launch site in an area more known for rattlesnakes than rockets.

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In Wakefield, a new fire station for Ossett would be built nearer to Wakefield city centre, with an engine removed from the Wakefield station.

BBC: A fire engine leaving a fire station

In July a mentally disturbed Muslim man, arrested for blasphemy in the Punjab city of Bahawalpur, was dragged out of the police station by a crowd of 2, 000 and set on fire.

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