Los Angeles County installed 30 of the units to harvest electricity from a large municipal waste center.

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The PCT has not released any information about planned changes at the county's other minor injury units at Ripon, Selby and Whitby.

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The development at Sprucefield, on the outskirts of Lisburn, County Antrim, which includes 19 other retail units, was first suggested nearly nine years ago.

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Cumbria County Council has provided two 500 sq ft units at its Maryport Business Centre free of charge so MIRS can store its equipment while the new facility is built.

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Meanwhile, the 10 RNLI lifeguard units, based on beaches in County Down and along the Causeway coast, responded to 158 incidents and assisted 176 people who found themselves in difficulty.

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The major provision of the 2009 settlement was the county's agreement to build or acquire 750 units of affordable housing, mostly in white areas, and market them to non-whites in the region.

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It said the units would be built on sites across the county, but it had not decided on the exact locations.

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GPs in the county said there was little evidence of the benefits to the units.

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