Rainfall amounts for March and April were below average, but May is already wetter than average, with the average area receiving 86mm of rain up to the 28th day of the month - 70mm is the average.

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Mr Packham said it had lost a significant amount of funding it had been receiving for being an area of high deprivation.

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Chris O'Donnell from the castle said he flew off again on Wednesday afternoon and three handlers were staking out the Sandy Lane area after receiving calls that he had been spotted there.

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It was only a temporary reprieve, though, as Obinna added the second after 56 minutes, receiving Piquionne's pass in the area before firing a thumping left-foot shot across Al-Habsi and into the bottom corner.

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Natalie is a girl from the York area who has been on the receiving end of racist bullying because she is from an Iranian background.

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Shahzad had just returned from a 5-month trip to Pakistan where he admitted receiving training in making bombs in Waziristan, a lawless tribal area along the Afghan border known as a terrorist haven.

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Mr Naseer, from the Sparkhill area of Birmingham, and Mr Khalid, from the Sparkbrook area, are also accused of preparing for acts of terrorism by receiving training in Pakistan.

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Major TOM BRYANT (Spokesman, 3rd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division): About a month ago, we started receiving intelligence from our Iraqi partners, reports that indicated a number of insurgents operating in this area northeast of Samarra, a very isolated, rural area, a lot of farms, a couple of small villages, but kind of a no man's land.

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