In a blow to the claims of the organizing committee that the Games would benefit the whole country, traffic from the south-west was down 62 per cent and that from central Scotland down 72 per cent.

虽然组委会宣称会使整个英国受益，但西南部和苏格兰中部的访问量分别下降了62%和72%，这对组委会是个打击。

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Overnight, some snow fell in Northern Ireland, southern and central Scotland, and parts of the Midlands and the north west of England.

一夜之间，一些的雪在北爱尔兰，南方和苏格兰中部落下，这些内地的部分和英国的西部北部。

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"There has been a dramatic increase in funding allocated directly to community safety projects across west central Scotland, " added the spokesperson.

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The flood alerts for Monday have been put in place for Argyll and Bute, Ayrshire and Arran, Caithness and Sutherland, Central, Dumfries and Galloway, Dundee and Angus, Orkney, Scottish Borders, Skye and Lochaber, Tayside, West Central Scotland, Wester Ross and the Western Isles.

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That said, many of the newly identified deposits are located in the central North Sea or to the west of Scotland, and will require deep-water drilling which is expensive.

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