Remembering the day her home was engulfed with water, Mrs Williams said the alarm was raised at about 07:00 GMT by postmen.

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If Mom has lived alone, successfully and proudly, for four decades, is it socially responsible to move her to a home when she stops remembering to pay her gas bill?

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But it is worth remembering that when every last solider who was part of the surge is home, there will still be around 70, 000 American troops in Afghanistan.

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Much of the article was taken up with remembering that he and his friends suffered not a jot of deprivation at home while their less privileged countrymen were dying in South-East Asia.

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Social housing developments are even winning awards in competition with private sector developments the Peabody Trust's Bedzed development in Surrey won the Evening Standard Lifestyle Home of the Year award though it is worth remembering that some of the most notorious 1960s and 1970s council housing estates also won design awards.

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