For about one week of the year, New Orleans officials and businesses go into overdrive to rake in the dollars that come parading through town.

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That will leave us the afternoons free - either to mooch about the Olympic site and soak up the atmosphere, or we can go into town before coming home.

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Carayol will go straight into the Poppies team to face Crawley Town this weekend in the Blue Square Premier.

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Bristol City Council then went against the inspector's recommendation and said only the southern part of the land should be made into a town green, which would have allowed the stadium development to go ahead.

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Bristol City Council went against the inspector's original recommendation for the land and said only the southern part of the site should be made into a town green, which would have allowed the stadium development to go ahead.

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If Ofsted is not satisfied, it plans to go into town halls to inspect school improvement services for the first time, it is understood, although this change will require consultation.

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How many highly paid fund managers go into a cheap furniture enterprise or drop in to drink at the out of town locations of a pub chain?

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She was 30 weeks pregnant when she began to go into labour and was told there were no cots available in the special care baby unit in her home town.

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In the 1950s, this was the go-to destination for Rat Pack party boys like Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr, who turned the town into their own private playground of jazz, cigars and card games.

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