Its green belt site straddles the border between Tandridge and Reigate and Banstead, whose councillors turned down the application by nine votes to seven.

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Tens of thousands of school pupils have been displaced along with their families from areas across Pakistan's tribal belt on the Afghan border where the Taliban have carved sanctuaries for themselves.

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When Celtel, a mobile-phone operator, set up in Zambia eight years ago, it concentrated on the densely populated corridor between Victoria Falls (on the border with Zimbabwe), Lusaka and the industrial copper belt.

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No Afghan government has yet accepted the border drawn by Britain in 1893 that runs through the middle of the Pashtun tribal belt.

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It is clear from both our and Ofcom's research that viewers in Border want news about their local area rather than news dominated by the urban agendas of either central belt Scotland or the north east of England.

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