At last month's auto show in Detroit, Mercedes-Benz showed a vehicle called "Vision-B, " a small but tall five-door cross between a small station wagon, a small minivan and a small SUV.

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Now he runs Only Connect, near Kings Cross station in London, a project for ex-offenders and youths in danger of drifting into crime.

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In an interview with a Melbourne radio station 3AW, Rhys Holleran - whose company Southern Cross Austereo owns 2DayFM - said his staff had tried several times to make contact with Mrs Saldanha and another nurse at the King Edward VII's Hospital to get their permission to use the prank conversation before it was transmitted.

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King's Lynn is also a similar distance to King's Cross station, where tourists will then be able to take a seven-minute transfer to the Olympic Park via a new high-speed train.

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The plans were eventually shelved allowing the Swanage Railway to develop a three-mile extension from Harman's Cross through Corfe Castle and a park and ride station at Norden.

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To experience the best leg of Via's cross-country service, take the Snow Train, which runs from Vancouver's grand beaux arts railroad station through a series of stunning snowbound mountain ranges to the hamlet of Jasper in the middle of 4, 200-square-mile Jasper National Park (home to some of the world's best, least-crowded skiing, at Marmot Basin).

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