Mr Neill said the consultation "offered the opportunity to modernise the current licensing laws and bring Northern Ireland's night-time economy into the 21st century".

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Some think that Mr Putin may have authorised the investigations into Yukos without realising how brutally they would be carried out: night-time arrests, blatant shows of force, armed raids on Yukos's charity projects.

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Whimsical or not, the Twitter fail-whale is now an icon of an adolescence that the company is eager to move past as the service has become a powerhouse medium for not only mega-events like Election Night conversations and debates but also for corporate marketing teams eager to tap into the sentiments of crowds and gain real-time insights and opportunities.

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