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Up to 50,000 missing horses may have ended up as food sold in Britain
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/11938438/Up-to-50000-missing-horses-may-have-ended-up-as-food-sold-in-Britain.html
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Toddler and five-year-old girl gang raped in India
The girls were seriously injured in separate attacks in Delhi on Friday night
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/toddler-and-five-year-old-girl-gang-raped-in-india-a6697816.html
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Big Ben clock would cost £29m to fully refurbish, says report
Report for Commons Finance Committee recommends £29.2m package for dilapidated timepiece, but says the cost could rise to £40m
The public purse is already facing a restoration bill of up to £7bn for the crumbling Palace of Westminster.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/oct/18/big-ben-clock-could-cost-40m-to-fix-say-mps
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Museum Secrets
Series 1 | Episode 1
Stunning architecture and relics from the National Archaeological Museum of Greece. Experts attempt to unlock the mystery of the complex 2,000-year-old Antikythera mechanism.
http://yesterday.uktv.co.uk/tv-guide/
Tonight @ 23:00 (GMT) on Yesterday TV channel / yesterday.uktv.co.uk/ (http://yesterday.uktv.co.uk/)
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INSIGHT-Typically Greek, delayed land register is never-ending epic
...Documents may be two centuries old and define the limits of properties with reference to landmarks that no longer exist, or using fuzzy phrases such as "500 paces from the olive tree" or "five stone throws in this direction".
Roughly 60 percent of the country is officially designated as forest, protected by the Greek constitution from economic exploitation. The perimeters of forests are largely delineated by aerial photographs taken shortly after World War Two.
Areas that have since been deforested, including several of the Cyclades islands, remain registered as forest even though they may not have a single tree. Much of suburban Athens is still officially forest, since the city expanded massively in the 20th century with no equivalent changes in land zoning.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/18/eurozone-greece-cadastre-idUSL8N12E1Z520151018
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Museum Secrets
Series 1 | Episode 1
Stunning architecture and relics from the National Archaeological Museum of Greece. Experts attempt to unlock the mystery of the complex 2,000-year-old Antikythera mechanism.
http://yesterday.uktv.co.uk/tv-guide/ (http://yesterday.uktv.co.uk/tv-guide/)
Tonight @ 23:00 (GMT) on Yesterday TV channel / yesterday.uktv.co.uk/ (http://yesterday.uktv.co.uk/)
Thanks, Maik - I've only just seen this. I have seen one or two others in this series and was quite impressed, so look forward to this one. We now have a YouView box that allows us to get catch up TV much more conveniently.
Tony
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INSIGHT-Typically Greek, delayed land register is never-ending epic
...Documents may be two centuries old and define the limits of properties with reference to landmarks that no longer exist, or using fuzzy phrases such as "500 paces from the olive tree" or "five stone throws in this direction".
Roughly 60 percent of the country is officially designated as forest, protected by the Greek constitution from economic exploitation. The perimeters of forests are largely delineated by aerial photographs taken shortly after World War Two.
Areas that have since been deforested, including several of the Cyclades islands, remain registered as forest even though they may not have a single tree. Much of suburban Athens is still officially forest, since the city expanded massively in the 20th century with no equivalent changes in land zoning.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/18/eurozone-greece-cadastre-idUSL8N12E1Z520151018 (http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/18/eurozone-greece-cadastre-idUSL8N12E1Z520151018)
:oki:
Tony