However, the department was dogged by accusations of ineffectiveness and he made a few personal gaffes, such as being driven a very short distance by a car at a Labour conference on his way to deliver a speech on traffic reduction.

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The Calzaghe-Kessler bout will be held in front of a huge crowd at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium, just a short distance from Rees' Newbridge home.

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Instead he parked up at nearby Wellington Barracks, a short distance from the palace.

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The court heard the girl had been returning from shopping at Asda in Govan, a short distance from her home, when she was dragged to bushes and viciously assaulted by Hackett.

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Northern Tales tour company picks up guests at their hotels and takes them a short distance outside Whitehorse to view the auroras from heated, walled tents.

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"F Scott Fitzgerald wrote some of the most poignant and beautiful passages of his extraordinary novel just a short distance away at a villa outside Saint-Raphael, " Luhrmann said in a statement.

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At first, it was just walking a short distance every day, but as the weight went down, my energy level went up.

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At 10:13 he got off the bus, a short distance from Mrs Jethwa's home.

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Drive a short distance up the road to the offices at Morrisette House, on the way passing Chantilly House, the still-in-progress antebellum manse.

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The South Belfast MLA described an attack on a man who had been hit on the head with a hammer and whose car was found burned out a short distance away, and said people were fearful of letting their daughters drive cars in Belfast at the weekend.

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