The amendment, sponsored by John Ashcroft, a Republican from Missouri, and supported by a bipartisan coalition of other farm-belt senators, ran into anti-Castro fury in the House and was left out of the final farm bill.

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Liverpool artist Tom Murphy has created sculptures which appear across the North West, including the statue of John Lennon at Liverpool John Lennon Airport and that of Billy Fury outside the Piermaster's House in the Albert Dock.

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Mr Moore, aka Bryce Fury, was the winner of a national competition to play at the terrace bar at the House of Commons.

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