Birmingham's Labour Leader, Sir Albert Bore says councils will be left with no option to decommission some services altogether.

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Brian Fraser, 63, told police he had no idea how the single-barrelled 12-bore shotgun, along with cartridges, came to be hidden between two hay bales.

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It is easier to enlarge components than to shrink them, so the XM25 bullet design could, without too much trouble, be made to fit ammunition intended for weapons with larger-bore barrels.

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Mr Draper was shot at close range in the stomach with a 12-bore shotgun and had to be airlifted to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge.

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Had they known that one day Romney would be running for president, they might have acted with equal haste on cleaning up the many filings and paperwork that bore Romney's name but at the time, they didn't think that was an urgent task.

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