"I don't think the public have realised what these changes will mean to them, " said Dilwyn Morgan, a Gwynedd county councillor in Bala, which stands to lose its weekly registrar session.

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Richard Morgan, from Tantobie, County Durham, was jailed for shaking to death 13-month-old Slater Sharkey in 2010.

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Such sentiments seem to have touched a nerve with Judge Warren Morgan, of the Dauphin County Orphans' Court.

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This deal, struck by JP Morgan, allows a cash-strapped county to upgrade to a world-class sewage system it could otherwise never afford.

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Three Cumbria County councillors, David Southward, Frank Morgan and Wendy Skillicorn, called-in the decision, meaning the cabinet wished to examine the original rejection.

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That will be doubly difficult because they will lose star players who have county contracts, including keeper Niall O'Brien, batsman Eoin Morgan and bowler Boyd Rankin.

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