• It's very simple, when you go to Acts, when those men who were scared because the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ has been taken away from them, they were told to go to an upper room.

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  • McGuckin had earlier been warned that he faced "a substantial prison sentence" for the offence but judge Lord Bonomy said he had been lenient because the 28-year-old was under financial pressures due to illness and a new family.

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  • In 2011, Younas appealed his conviction and claimed there had been a miscarriage of justice because trial judge Lord Hardie misdirected the jury.

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  • Although the chancellor's pension credits have done a good job in improving the lot of poor pensioners, both Mr Blair and Lord Turner regard the policy as unsustainable because it discourages saving.

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  • She said in a BBC interview on Wednesday she had decided to go public with the claims against Lord Rennard because she was "very worried that he would make a comeback".

    BBC: Lord Rennard claims: Alleged victim speaks to police

  • But Lord Strathclyde delayed the debate because he said he had been advised the motion was "inadmissible" and should be withdrawn.

    BBC: Lords clashes over delaying of boundary changes vote

  • Gayle, who scored 28 and nought in his two innings, has been criticised for arriving in England on Monday - just two days before the start of the Lord's Test - because of his Indian Premier League commitments.

    BBC: Windies lost plot, reveals Gayle

  • Mr. Joseph Harvey is 105, and Ms. Mabel Harvey here is the spry young one at 102. (Laughter.) And Ms. Harvey just now was whispering in my ear, as you guys were walking in, that this must be the Lord's doing, because we've come a mighty long way. (Laughter.) That's what she said.

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  • Labour's Lord Harris of Haringey told peers that because the Boundary Commission is independent of government he had "drawn the short straw" to respond to the debate.

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  • Lord Foster says it's necessary because the UK is facing 21st Century challenges including an over congested rail network and housing shortages particularly in London and the South East.

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  • Sir Edward Garnier QC, a former solicitor general who is acting on behalf of Lord McAlpine, told the court that because of the huge amount of publicity around the Newsnight programme "only an idiot in a hurry" could not have known the meaning of the tweet.

    BBC: Sally Bercow tweet 'pointed to Lord McAlpine'

  • On Sunday, David Cameron said donations by Lord Ashcroft were "within the law" because he was resident in the UK and on the electoral register.

    BBC: Tax attack on Tory peer Ashcroft

  • The police are unwilling to give details of the real-life case against Lord Archer, because they fear his lawyers would exploit such disclosures to claim that pre-trial publicity made a fair trial impossible.

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  • Lord Ramsbotham argued that because no-one in the prison service was responsible and accountable for young people, there was no overall strategy aimed at challenging their criminal attitudes and behaviour or preparing them for a future free of offending.

    BBC: Ex-prisons chief: Prison is failing young offenders

  • Lord Hanningfield said because it appeared that everyone else used the allowance system to recoup their costs, he would do the same thing.

    BBC: England

  • As a visual spectacle, it rivals anything in The Lord of the Rings or King Kong, precisely because you know you're seeing a human being in action.

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  • Finally, a question from Lib Dem Lord Ezra on carbon capture led energy and climate change minister Lord Marland to explain the Longannet project was withdrawn because "financing was going off the dial".

    BBC: New police chiefs will be under-funded, peer claims

  • This is because one of the QCs who delivered that opinion is the crossbench peer Lord Pannick, who's increasingly influential in swinging the crossbench vote for or against a particular clause of a bill.

    BBC: Week ahead

  • Introducing his amendment on the first day of report stage on the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill, crossbencher and QC Lord Pannick insisted the change would not cost anything because the duty would only apply "within the resources made available" by the bill.

    BBC: Ministers' legal aid changes dealt blow by peers

  • This is because Lord Irvine, although he is not in charge of the prosecution service like his Scottish counterpart, is a member of the government and the legislature, and arguably has an interest in seeing that the laws he helps to make and pass are enforced.

    ECONOMIST: Human-rights law

  • Bilbo Baggins, played by Martin Freeman seemed to grow a little more slowly into his character, but only because we are used to seeing Ian Holm for so long in the The Lord of the Rings film credits.

    FORBES: Review: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and The Mooreeffoc Effect

  • Lord Mandelson also announced plans to extend the car scrappage scheme because money for the initiative was running out.

    BBC: At-a-glance: Labour conference

  • "That is written because they have to say something, " Lord Fellowes says of his detractors in the British press.

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  • Because soon enough, they will be back to algebra, "Lord of the Flies" and I will wonder, once again, what to make for dinner.

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  • His supporters say that Gordon Brown never seriously tried to sell him as a candidate because he wanted Lord Mandelson to stay in London as his top political strategist for the coming British general election.

    ECONOMIST: European politics

  • That was partly because of Mr Scarlett's defence of the government's Iraq weapons dossier during Lord Hutton's inquiry, and was not helped by the fact that Tony Blair's former spin doctor, Alastair Campbell, apparently refers to Mr Scarlett as "mate".

    BBC: John Scarlett has been chief of MI6 since 2004

  • Ulster Unionist peer Lord Empey said there was "widespread dismay" at the bail decision because "our own government and our own courts look powerless in our own country".

    BBC: Abu Qatada statement

  • Lord Howe said the decision to suspend surgery in Leeds had been taken because of concerns raised from a variety of sources about the safety of surgery at the unit.

    BBC: Leeds heart unit: Government 'had no role in suspension'

  • The Cold Case Unit was set up at the instruction of Scotland's chief prosecutor, the lord advocate, in June 2011 to oversee cases that were kept open because of a possibility of new information emerging.

    BBC: Malcolm Webster

  • Some may feel a tiny bit sorry for the four other eminences on that short list (Paul Tucker, Lord Turner, Lord Burns and Sir John Vickers) - because they now look like the chancellor's insurance in case Mr Carney said no.

    BBC: Why Osborne went to Canada for his governor

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