Birmingham and Newcastle universities allow students at some poorly performing state schools to fill in a second application form, describing their difficult circumstances.

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We will ask the Committee on Standards in Public Life to look at the circumstances applying in Northern Ireland before final application of the flat rate allowance for MPs representing Northern Ireland.

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Taxpayers who have entered OVDP who disagree with the application of the offshore penalty given the unique facts and circumstances of their case may elect to opt out of the civil settlement structure of the program.

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But, again, the application of such powers needs to be restricted to extreme circumstances if they are not merely to be a means to muzzle all opposition, and the gathering of dust on such laws is a sign of maturity.

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Of course it wasn't, and as 2am approached I had already pencilled in my application to be a dustman - a practice I always went through in such circumstances.

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