Four Lib Dem MPs - Sarah Teather, David Ward, Julian Huppert and John Leech - voted against the government while Charles Kennedy and Andrew George abstained on the second reading of the legislation needed to implement the three-year cap.

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Whichever you choose, make sure to wear hiking boots and leech socks -- the forest floor is muddy and thick with small, innocuous leeches.

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In this year's winner of the Man Booker prize, a shy Henry James-loving leech moves into the house of a Tory politician and immerses himself in gay sex.

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Many of the trails are planked with wood, cutting down on the leech factor, and the lodge offers night wildlife drives to see nocturnal animals like the wide-eyed tarsier.

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