Party activists fear losing control of a string of local authorities in Labour's inner London heartland, where it controls 15 of the 32 boroughs.

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Airlines ran up against a string of understaffed control towers from Michigan to North Carolina that were holding up flights.

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For the second day running, the Labour leadership had to put up with a string of attacks on its economic policies and "control freak" tendencies.

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Sixty years after the city had been in the control of Al Capone, Bugsy Malone et al, a string of films were released that recreated the cat-and-mouse chase between the police and gangsters.

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And the Christian Democrats no longer seem so confident of continuing their string of electoral successes next spring, when they had been hoping to wrest control of both Schleswig-Holstein and North Rhine-Westphalia from the Social Democrats.

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