This led to a total of 23 schools in the region, mainly in the north and east, closing for the day.
Dana operates mainly in the North Sea, which accounts for 81% of production, although its also has facilities in Egypt and West Africa.
Countries that are running current-account surpluses, mainly in the north, must help, by avoiding overzealous belt-tightening and introducing reforms to encourage private spending.
Countries where the gap was least pronounced were mainly in the north of Europe, with Iceland, Norway, Denmark and Slovenia the most egalitarian societies.
Once found mainly in the north east Atlantic, in recent years the fish have tended to head north west towards Iceland and the Faroe Isles following their prey of squid and crustaceans.
Although ceasefires and peace talks have failed before in the two-decade long war between the government and the Tamil minority, which lives mainly in the north and east, there are greater grounds for optimism than usual.
They feel they are being done down by a compact between the majority Shia Arabs (about 60% of the population, especially concentrated in the south of the country) and the Kurds (around 20%, based mainly in the north).
Mexican wine is not widely known but there are a range of reds and whites, mainly grown in the north of Baja California.
There is a long history of tensions between Nigerian Muslims, who mainly live in the north, and Christians who mostly live in the south along with followers of traditional animist religions.
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Nigeria's central government has struggled to contain the militant group, which operates mainly in the predominantly Muslim north, but has also struck as far south as the capital, Abuja.
For a truly spectacular case of regional uproar, look at the national water plan unveiled in September, a huge scheme to transfer a cubic kilometre of water a year from (mainly) the Ebro, in the north, to the dry south-east.
The states mainly affected are Perak in the north and Negeri Sembilan in the centre, where the largest concentrations of pig farms in South-East Asia are found.
National Australia Bank has been reviewing what to do with its substantial UK operation, Clydesdale - which also owns Yorkshire Bank and operates mainly in Scotland and the north of England - since January.
His support is in the mainly Muslim north, where the government feels electorally vulnerable.
In the mainly Muslim north of the country, the story gross inequalities of wealth, abuse of power, insurgency is much the same.
Terrorism in Russia has a global aspect, but it is also related to the Kremlin's policies in the mainly Muslim north Caucasus.
Punishing gays is one of the few common themes that politicians can promote with equal zest in the mainly Christian south and the largely Muslim north.
Under an unofficial rule in the PDP, its presidential candidate rotates between the country's mainly Muslim north and largely Christian south every two terms in an attempt to prevent conflict between the regions.
Some 1.5 million people died in the conflict between the mainly Muslim north and the south, where most people are Christian or follow traditional beliefs.
Once an assembly has been chosen, it will ask the country's government to give them a separate homeland for the volk, descendants of the mainly Dutch pioneers who trekked north from the British-run Cape Colony in the early 19th century.
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The SPLA has been fighting an 18-year-war demanding more freedom in the south for the mainly animist and Christian population, from the mostly Muslim, Arabic-speaking north.
That is mainly because of increased activity in Russia and the United States, specifically North Dakota.
Since the firm was founded by Leonardo Del Vecchio in 1961 in Belluno, a province in the north of Italy, it has thrived through mainly American takeovers.
Coverage of 3G is mainly good in north Down and Castlereagh, but it's very poor in the rest of County Down.
Showers are likely, mainly over western and northern areas, and it will be wintry over high ground in the north.
Forecasters say it will be mostly cloudy and windy, with perhaps a few brighter spells in the north and east of the UK and the odd outbreak of mainly light rain or drizzle.
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Observers believe Beatrix remained on the throne for so long in part because of unrest in Dutch society as the country struggled to assimilate more and more immigrants, mainly Muslims from North Africa, and shifted away from its traditional reputation as one of the world's most tolerant nations.
Where you've seen a lot of the militiamen go, a lot of the insurgents go, is to the south and mainly to the north, which is why you're seeing a lot of action up in Mosul.
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