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1 Francis Pym went to Defence ; Peter Walker to Agriculture ; Sir Ian Gilmour also to the Foreign Office ; Norman St John-Stevas became Leader of the House .
2 It was certainly correct to put Jim Prior , Peter Walker and Ian Gilmour firmly in the ‘ wet ’ camp and Keith Joseph would go down as an undoubted ‘ dry ’ , but for most of the rest of us our opinion depended upon the issue .
3 TODAY 'S excellent programme at Cheltenham has not been ruined by the hard ground to the extent which at one time appeared likely and there are two bonus runners , namely the champion hurdler , Beech Road in the Charles Heidsieck Champagne Bula Hurdle , and the Queen Mother Two Mile Champion Chase winner Barnbrook Again in the A.F.Budge Handicap Chase .
4 The Loyalist Coalition , consisting of the Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party led by William Craig and the Democratic Unionist Party led by the Rev. Ian Paisley together with the Anti-White Paper Unionists led by Harry West , refused to take part in the talks .
5 Kate Curran and 32-year-old Angela were in Mrs Curran 's Edenvale Avenue home in the village of Eden near Kilroot , when the killer struck .
6 LETTERS FROM MY FATHER ed by Amanda Allsop Alan Sutton , £4.99 I USED to encounter Kenneth Allsop frequently in the Sixties when we broadcast together on BBC book programmes .
7 Champions Wigan won yesterday 's Locker Cup match against Warrington , but lost hooker Dermott early in the game .
8 The smoke had cleared , revealing at least half the school lined up in rows and Miss Hardbroom still in the same position , with the bucket neatly over her head .
9 I knew David Wallington well during the war , and he introduced us .
10 There was now a complete uproar in the first form room , Miss Potts again in the second form room was amazingly exasperated .
11 Irene and Douglas Avery had moved to Deerhurst Road right at the beginning of the expansion , just after Juliet 's birth .
12 The siting of the Roman Ermine Street just to the west of Stamford prompted Francis Peck in 1727 to suggest that Stamford was formerly the important Roman town of Durobrivae , originally called Doorebriff He supported the claim with some incoherent etymology that related the name to the Saxon word ‘ Welland ’ , irrespective of the fact that the gentle Welland does not rage or boil ( according to Ekwall 's English River Names , Welland means ‘ good stream ’ ) .
13 It happened behind the ice rink in Oxford off Oxpens Road close to the Oxford Canal .
14 LENNOX LEWIS may be protesting too much about wanting to fight Riddick Bowe immediately for the undisputed world heavyweight title .
15 THE ZULU leader , Mangosuthu Buthelezi , held talks with Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street yesterday as the Prime Minister prepared to withstand attacks over her southern Africa policy at the Commonwealth Heads of Government conference in Kuala Lumpur later this month .
16 I was sent to Nongkhai province in the North East of Thailand on the Maekhong River across from the capital of Laos .
17 ‘ No , ’ says Vic , looking Bert Braddock straight in the eye .
18 Prince Charles left at 3.03pm , shaking chef Mosimann warmly by the hand as he climbed into his car .
19 Liverpool , meanwhile , may have a luxury of goalkeeping talent to draw upon , with Mike Hooper and David James also on the books , but their attacking options could be cut to the bone next week .
20 Some corners missed part of it altogether , none more so than Low Birk Hatt Even during the last decade before the dawn of the twenty-first century , the prospect of water on tap there was still problematical .
21 We got our first wireless second-hand from John Thwaites at High Birk Hatt just before the outbreak of war in 1939 .
22 Lustily chanting Bugis sea-shanties , our entire crew edged Sinar Surya directly into the eye of the wind and beyond the reef .
23 Emerson 's closest rivals for the title , Philip Young and Garth McCartney both retired their Sierra Cosworth early in the proceedings .
24 HERO CHRISTIE STILL IN THE HUNT FOR GOLD
25 Our plan for the days ahead was to drop to the valley floor and follow the Hongu Khola northwards to the wild Panch Pokhari at the valleyhead , then return westwards across the difficult Mingbo La pass to familiar territory in the Solo Khumba .
26 Just outside the city centre , on the way up to Reid 's Hotel , turn right up Rua do Dr Pita just after the bridge .
27 To do this simply type Bach directly under the fieldname Composer in the criteria range .
28 Dulles and Admiral Radford later in the same month militantly argued for American intervention if Egypt — equipped with Russian arms — were to attack Israel .
29 She says you could hear Canon Wheeler all down the stairs . ’
30 Under the whip , he spurted past Czar Alexander shortly before the line and went a length up before Piggott , the race won , dropped his hands .
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