Amidst lush green in the desert, Coachella takes place on the Empire Polo Fields in Indio, California, a small hamlet about a dozen miles from Palm Springs.

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Retained Isle of Wight firefighter Neil Cole and Jacqueline Rowley, from Eastleigh Friends of People with a Learning Disability, receive the British Empire Medal for work in their fields.

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Mackinder saw history being made on the Northwest frontier of India, but the Empire bled to death on the fields of France in fear of what might happen elsewhere, and by the time it got to India it handed over that frontier, out of exhaustion and a growing reluctance to fight for a possession that did not want to be possessed.

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Indeed, the division with the highest return on investment in the Kinder empire (26% in 2011) provides carbon dioxide for oil companies and itself to inject into old fields to goose out stubborn oil.

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