• Plastic matting is to be installed over the grass surface of the Land's End runway to allow flights to resume between the Isles of Scilly.

    BBC: Plastic mats to strengthen Land's End runway

  • If the community did not over-consume the grass and kept it fertilized and fresh, then it was a useful resource for generations.

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  • The second nightmare for the prime minister is the prospect of the Labour party being seriously split over the affair with grass roots activists in London defying his leadership and supporting Mr Livingstone.

    BBC: Blair's mayor crisis

  • The ball pounded off the grass and slipped over the fingertips of Czech goalkeeper Petr Cech and into the net for the decisive goal in Portugal's 1-0 win, sending Ronaldo sprinting into the arms of his teammates and over to the television cameras for a primal scream at close range.

    WSJ: Euro 2012: Cristiano Ronaldo, Portugal Show Czech Republic the Exit

  • For weeks, my grandfather sat in the long-stemmed grass and pored over the brown volume with its soft pages.

    NEWYORKER: The Tiger��s Wife

  • Restoration work, such as reconstructing salt marshes near the island of Burano and sand dunes at Cavallino, and planting eel grass all over the place, is part of the solution.

    ECONOMIST: Flood barriers

  • Rain over the summer has meant a poorer quality of grass silage, and the farm's maize crop is also expected to produce lower yields when it is harvested in the coming weeks.

    BBC: Richard Downes

  • Cows need exercise, and while most cows over here get to spend their lives outside basking under the sun while eating grass, over there you guys have your cows living one next to another in feedlots standing in their own filth while eating pellets from a steel plate.

    FORBES: What Makes Argentine Steak So Renowned?

  • Experts are divided over the origin of the jelly which has been found on grass banks away from the water's edge at the RSPB's Ham Wall base.

    BBC: RSPB Ham Wall 'slime' baffles experts

  • Following two grass fires over the Easter weekend, arson reduction team staff, police and youth workers will visit Maesgeirchen in Bangor on Thursday to get the message across.

    BBC: Facebook used to help fight grass fires in north Wales

  • There is also the idea in tomboyism that you have chosen comfort over flirtation, ease over fussiness, a button-down shirt you've grabbed off the floor over a skirt you can't sit on the grass in.

    WSJ: Girls Will Be Boys | Fashion

  • Henry stands and watches helplessly as the small fire he has birthed flows like brilliant liquid over the tree stump's ragged edges and into the dead grass and pine needles that carpet the barren slope from the water's edge to the lip of the woods.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Woodsburner'

  • For all the angst over the economy, there is tremendous grass-roots resistance to economic reform.

    ECONOMIST: The state the boom forgot

  • Over time, grass has carpeted the remnants of its walls with green.

    BBC: Walking Hadrian��s Wall

  • Crossing the great Atrato swamp, where the track became a causeway over slimy logs and then a mat of floating grass, the bike would sometimes sink into nothingness.

    ECONOMIST: Ian Hibell

  • Fire crews were called to the blaze on Skye at 17:10 BST on Friday and found it rapidly spreading over an area of grass and heathland due to the dry conditions.

    BBC: Firefighters extinguish wildfires on Skye

  • Firefighters in Cumbria dealt with more than 30 deliberate grass and rubbish fires over the weekend.

    BBC: Arsonists blamed for grass fires in west Cumbria

  • In north Wales there were 11 deliberate fires over the Easter weekend of which three were grass blazes.

    BBC: Grass fire threat to overhead wires near Pontycymer

  • Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service has dealt with more than 50 deliberate grass and gorse fires over the past two weeks.

    BBC: Siddick Ponds nature reserve damaged by fire

  • Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service has dealt with more than 50 deliberate grass and gorse fires over the past two weeks and has blamed the increase on youngsters on holiday from school.

    BBC: Fire at Siddick Ponds

  • They skirted the edge of the little meadow and Robert Jordan, striding easily now without the pack, the carbine pleasantly rigid over his shoulder after the heavy, sweating pack weight, noticed that the grass was cropped down in several places and signs that picket pins had been driven into the earth.

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  • He scooped tilapia from the ponds, cleaned them in the grass, and grilled them for his guests over an open fire.

    NEWYORKER: Silver or Lead

  • Outside, a frost had stayed all that day and, icing over now, still whitened the small garden, the patch of grass, the fields beyond.

    NEWYORKER: Faith

  • In north Wales over the Easter weekend there were 11 deliberate fires of which three were grass blazes.

    BBC: Facebook used to help fight grass fires in north Wales

  • It is performed professionally and informally in grass-root associations and often transmitted over successive generations within the same families.

    UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences

  • Murray came into the match with a 6-2 head-to-head advantage over Roddick and, having won their only previous meeting on grass, the Scot was expected to triumph on Centre Court.

    BBC: Fans proud of Murray effort

  • There are also fears from some grass roots Tory activists that they will have even less control over the choice of candidates they will be expected to devote hours of their spare time campaigning for.

    BBC: Feature

  • She sold three million copies of her book and led a grass roots movement over 25 years, that required her to be on the road continuously.

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  • While the foreclosure epidemic has left communities across the United States overrun with unoccupied houses and overgrown grass, underneath the chaos another trend is quietly emerging that, over the next several decades, could change the face of suburban American life as we know it.

    CNN: Is America's suburban dream collapsing into a nightmare?

  • Amid waves of grass in red and green and the hush of the tide, the sun set over the hills.

    WSJ: Four Days Through Friesland

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