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„But few expect him to be given as much leeway as last year, when he was part of a break which went 35 minutes clear on a damp transitional stage. Bonjour have only been in existence since 2000 and added a fresh edge to French cycling when Rous, Simon and Jean-Cyril Robin, who has since left the team, were brought in from rivals. They only just squeezed into qualifying for the 2000 Tour but impressed sufficiently with Simon's sixth place and Rous' 11th the following year. Robin had been the best-placed rider the previous year in 19th.“
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„22 new boroughs were created. Lord Grey CHARLES GREY, 2ND EARL GREY (1764-1845)Whig MP and Prime Minister (1830-1834)Founder member of the Society of the Friends of the People in 1792First Lord of the Admiralty in 1806Foreign Secretary in 1806 but resigned over Catholic emancipationBecame Prime Minister in 1830Called an election over Parliamentary Reform and wonIntroduced the famous Reform Bill which was defeatedAt a third attempt, a new Bill went through the Commons but was defeated in the Lords and he resignedWilliam IV promised to create enough peers to see the bill through the Lords so Grey returnedThe Reform Act was passed in 1832Grey resigned in 1834 over Ireland In the 1832 Reform Act men could vote but they had to be freeholders of property that was worth 40 shillings a year, or those with land worth £10 annually or leasing £50 properties. NEW BOROUGHS CREATED BY THE 1832 REFORM ACT Returning two members: Macclesfield Stockport Sunderland Bolton Blackburn Manchester Tower Hamlets Stoke-upon-Trent Lambeth Birmingham Bradford Halifax Leeds Sheffield Returning one member: Whitehaven Gateshead South Shields Cheltenham Rochdale Salford Tynemouth Huddersfield Wakefield Whitby /UL> Select historical period 55 BC - 1087 The Romans to William I 1087 - 1327 William II to Edward II 1327 - 1547 Edward III to Henry VIII 1547 - 1660 Edward VI to Cromwell 1660 - 1702 Charles II to James II 1702 - 1760 Anne to George II 1760 - 1792 George III to French Revolution 1792 - 1837 War with France to William IV 1837 - 1861 Victoria and Albert 1861 - 1901 Victoria to Edward VII 1901 - 1919 Edward VII to World War I 1920 - 1939 Russian Civil War to World War 2 1940 - 1959 Churchill to Castro 1960 - 1979 Wind of Change to Thatcher 1980 - 1999 Zimbabwe to the Dome“
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BBC NEWS | UK | England | Nestlé to cut 160 milk jobs
„Condensed milk West Derbyshire Conservative MP Patrick McLoughlin says it is a major blow to the local economy. Nestlé will expand production at its Dalston factory, making more popular items such as Cappuccino and coffee creamer Coffee Mate. But despite a proposed £2.5m investment in Dalston, it will see 24 job losses because of falling demand for sweetened condensed milk.“
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/ 2525145.stm
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BBC - Radio 4 - The Material World 16/1/2003
„This means there is no need for to go back to the lab for costly tests where water samples might get contaminated in transit, they can also instantly shut down a plant or factory that is the cause of the pollution problem. This technique, called Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) might be a useful tool for trying to understand more about diseases like Alzheimers, Cystic Fibrosis and Creutzfield Jacob disease which are all thought to result from abnormalities of protein folding.“
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/ thematerialworld_20030116.shtml
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BBC News | SCI/TECH | Cult coffee machine sold
„The researchers decided to attach a camera to it and broadcast its pictures on the net, so that anyone looking at the images would know whether making the trip to the pot was worthwhile. Sold: The final webcam image The percolator soon acquired cult status, with hundreds of thousands of people logging on to watch it on one of the first ever web-cam broadcasts. The Cambridge computer department decided to sell the broken old pot because it is moving to new labs and the students want a new coffee-maker. "Time moves on and we want to buy a shiny new espresso machine," the students wrote in their offering on auction site eBay.“
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1490000/ 1490008.stm
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