Sandy flats lie to the east, west and south, with empty lots jutting up against halted new construction, gambling mainstays and the crumbling inner city.

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Lord Berkeley tabled a question to government ministers on 25 June 2012, asking what action they were taking to create a passenger ferry link to the Isles of Scilly, which lie off the south-west tip of Cornwall, in line with the Scottish government's ferries policy.

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He announced that he would ask the national assembly to change the constitution on Tuesday to allow Mr Chavez's body to lie beside that of 19th Century South American revolutionary leader Simon Bolivar.

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England's Gary Clark and David Carter both shot opening rounds of 69 to lie three shots off the lead in a group containing South African Trevor Immelman.

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South Korea's western islands are seen as especially vulnerable to attack from the North, as they lie just south of the sea border, which is disputed by Pyongyang, says the BBC's Lucy Williamson in Seoul.

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South Korea's western islands are regarded as being particularly vulnerable to attack as they lie 10km (six miles) south of the sea boundary.

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There, islands in the South China Sea, beneath which oil and gas are thought to lie, are subject to several disputes involving China and South-East Asian neighbours.

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Nevertheless, said Erfani-Ghadimi, the problem doesn't lie in South Africa's laws so much as in the ability of the justice system to cope with the number of inmates in the system.

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"It's all a lie, " Mr. Kim said to Shin Sang-ok, who later told a South Korean magazine of the remark.

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