The Met Office has issued a severe weather warning for South East England for Friday, warning of snow throughout the region - including much of East and West Sussex - and a danger of some drifting.

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The most pronounced regional cleavage is between Kyongsang in the south-east and the Cholla region in the south-west.

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We had a detailed exchange on the situation in our extended region, including East Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and West Asia.

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For the purposes of European funding, Wales is divided into two regions: West Wales and the Valleys and East Wales, with the former region qualifying for the highest level of funding.

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He said it was time to re-consider the effects of creating a "cross-border sub-region" of north-east Wales and north-west England which sets the framework in which councils and the Welsh Government operate.

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The town of Darwen in Lancashire, which was evacuated last month when rivers burst their banks, is among 65 places in the North East, the North West, the South West, the Midlands and the Anglian region of England, that are subject to a flood warning.

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The 36-year-old is the youngest member of the executive committee of football's world governing body and is also president of the West Asian Football Federation (WAFF), which covers the Middle East. region.

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He cited a study by a group of European climatic institutes that reconstructed more than a millennium of weather patterns in a region ranging from France's Rhone Valley in the west to Hungary in the east, and from Germany's Nuremberg area in the north to Italy's Tuscany in the south.

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