"The board have been very patient with Cardiff given the financial pressures they have faced, " said chief executive Leeann Dempster.

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"They offered staged and part payment and possibilities but nothing hard and fast, " Motherwell chief executive Leeann Dempster told BBC Radio 5 live.

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"A little snow doesn't scare me, " said Leeann Rivera, 43, stocking up at the only major grocery store still open in the Sandy-ravaged Far Rockaway section of Queens.

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