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...Bought via Duggleby Stephenson auctioneers of York. Hammer price for pair: £50. Total (including buyers’ fees): £63.48....
...And in Durham the county council has invited tenders for heating a leisure centre swimming pool using minewater....
...No disrespect to Ralph Northam, the Democratic governor-elect, but almost two-thirds of Fairfax County, which sits just across the Potomac, voted against Donald Trump....
...Current options include black plastic made from discarded bottles fished out of the Pacific and sustainably harvested madrone wood from Mendocino County, California....
...Raised in affluent Marin County, about 14 miles north of San Francisco, Beykpour is the only child of Iranian immigrants who arrived in California in the 1970s....
...Arch, the arms-length Northumberland Development Company set up by the county council, has built a waterfront hotel in Blyth ready for this summer’s North Sea Tall Ships Regatta....
...Like George Stephenson, the “father of the railways”, he was a Victorian north-east entrepreneur with global reach....
...His project, on his family’s farm in County Londonderry, appeared on the Channel 4 television programme Grand Designs last year and since then he has been offered commissions in 52 countries....
...Summer’s Crown: The Story of Cricket’s County Championship, by Stephen Chalke, Fairfield Books, RRP£20 A wonderfully researched, very well written and lovingly produced history of the county championship...
...In his 1992 novel Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson described the “metaverse”: an immersive online simulation of the real world, visited by millions through virtual-reality goggles....
...It centres on the Madigan family and their house, near an unnamed town, on the coastline of County Clare....
...Claire Stephenson, leader of the Greens on the council, said Norwich had a tendency to stand out....
...Norma Stephenson, president, UNISON trade union. Sharon Taylor, leader, Stevenage borough council. Jane Todd, chief executive, Nottingham city council....
...On September 27 1825, the little County Durham town of Shildon earned its place in history....
...We Loser-bethans are unworthy descendants of such Promethean forebears as Brunel and Stephenson....
...After Natasha’s suicide, there was a month that brought four further hangings: Angeline Fuller, 18; Nathaniel Pritchard, 15; Kelly Stephenson, 20 (Nathaniel’s cousin); and Jenna Parry, 16....
...Both Mr Beckford and Mr Stephenson want Britain to pay reparations, by funding educational and cultural programmes fostering understanding of slavery and links with Africa....
...In 1948 London County Council initiated its triennial Open Air Exhibition of Sculpture in Battersea Park, attracting more than 148,000 visitors....
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