The Communities and Local Government Committee (at 4.10pm) are committing borderline lese majeste by sitting on State Opening day itself, to continue their inquiry into the private rented housing sector.

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With the Scots sitting on just four points from their opening three matches, he added that the games against the Icelanders and August's trip to Norway are must-wins if dreams of South Africa in 2010 are to be prolonged.

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Jimmy will be sitting down with us for the kind of frank, eye-opening, and downright thrilling one-on-one conversation only the Engadget Show can provide.

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At Hotel Julien, the public rooms had no views to speak of, but sitting in them was a pleasure thanks to walls of gridded glass opening onto small courtyards.

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Mr Egal has even let slip that Somaliland's currency reserves are sitting in the State Bank of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa, pending the opening of a Hargeisa branch.

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He said the "glitz and glamour" of the Queen's Speech - which also involves the state opening of Parliament - would be "based on a complete fiction" because there were only 70 sitting days left and he said laws took, on average, 240 days to pass from the first to last stage.

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