Central Cornwall PCT is consulting on closing 37 beds in three cottage hospitals, which it says will be replaced with more community care.

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There will be 400 Games Makers and performers from the London 2012 opening and closing ceremonies at the central London parade, organisers said.

BBC: London 2012 volunteers to be in New Year's Day Parade

On an otherwise bleak day for job losses in Northern Ireland, east Belfast engineering firm Central Group Services announced it was closing with the loss of about 50 jobs.

BBC: Aircraft seat company cuts jobs

On the first, Holgersson and his central partner Stephen Keel were painfully slow closing down Chris Pontius.

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McCain's attempts to make the issue a central economic theme of the campaign's closing days.

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In central Helmand, British troops are handing over or closing operating bases at the rate of one a week.

BBC: UK troop reduction in Afghanistan 'in autumn'

In central Helmand, British troops are handing over or closing operating bases at the rate of one a week, which is reflected in casualty numbers - three years ago a coalition soldier was killed every 18 hours on average in Helmand.

BBC: UK soldier killed in Afghanistan