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Ex-mayor held for people smugglingNine people, including a former mayor of Mesolongi, a pilot and two Iraqi nationals, were arrested on Wednesday for transporting stranded refugees from a flying club in western Greece to Italy on a light single engine aircraft.
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Large rise in German bookings for Greek islands
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London parking space goes on sale for £350,000
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Flying Scotsman hit by drone on North York MoorsPassengers terrified by 'huge bang' when drone hit rear carriage of newly restored train on preserved railway tracks between Grosmont and Pickering
Sony has announced that in March... it will stop producing Betamax video cassette tapes, forty years after its introduction and 28 years after losing the war to VHS.
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