Further examination of one of the skulls from Slip Gill showed similar markings, parallel cut marks, leading to the conclusion that at least one of the victims was probably scalped.

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The researchers also found cut marks on the back of the skull which showed it had come from a rug or wall trophy suggesting it had probably been dropped into the river by hoaxers.

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Prof Black, from the University of Dundee, said Miss McCluskie's bones had 95 marks where they had been cut or hacked.

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There are fears, however, that the Prince deal marks a new phase in which established artists will cut record companies and traditional retailers out of the equation.

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Phrases sound different when cut off from their paragraphical pack and presented naked and alone in quotation marks.

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The textile industry, which has been suffering for many months, undone at first by the strong pound and since by thin demand in the shops, had more bad news this week when Courtaulds Textiles, a large manufacturer, said that it would probably cut 1, 200 jobs at Claremont Group, a clothing supplier to (currently troubled) Marks and Spencer which it bought a few weeks ago.

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Krasinski is winning as the straight, clean-cut young athlete -- he's the only one who doesn't seem to be acting in quotation marks, and he's got a talent for physical comedy -- but when it comes to the crunch, when he should be wrestling with his conscience or fighting for his woman, the Bullet's simply not there.

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