The army hopes to install a pontoon bridge to reach the part of the village cut off since the old bridge was swept away by the mud on Monday.

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The bridge will cut 80 minutes off the road-and-ferry journey from Kobe to Tokushima, one of the bigger towns on the island of Shikoku beyond Awaji, and will be something of a tourist attraction.

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Laumoli said people in outlying villages on one end of the main American Samoa island had been cut off because the connecting bridge was washed away.

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One, wearing an orange shirt emblazoned with the rocker's name, jumped off a bridge near Tokyo, and the other cut her wrists at a Tokyo funeral wake for the musician.

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Torbay MP Adrian Sanders told the House of Commons on Monday that the weather showed how easily transport in Devon could be adversely affected, "particularly Cowley Bridge to Paddington... and roads across Devon that were cut off".

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And ultimately you've hit upon the core of this plan that has been rolled out today, which is an attempt to bridge the gap between the two thirds of the Democrats who would like to cut off funding and the third who ran in the fall elections essentially against that stance, and the inability of the Democratic leadership to bridge that gap.

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Anyone who can cut 15 minutes off my journey time from Edinburgh airport to Kirkcaldy by ending the bridge tolls is the man for me.

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