Yet, the jury at Bristol Crown Court heard within days of the Lapland New Forest attraction opening on the Hampshire-Dorset border, hundreds of disgruntled visitors complained to trading standards officials that they had been ripped off.

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Thirty-one companies were rewarded with drug approvals, with the crown going to Pfizer (3 approvals) while Astellas, Forest, Roche and Sanofi, each got 2.

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They deny the charges, brought by Epping Forest District Council, and are on trial at Chelmsford Crown Court.

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Temperate-forest fires burn hot and fast, and sometimes all the way up to the crown of a tree.

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