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Bacardi (which owns five top brands) is an old-style, family-controlled firm that would have trouble raising large sums of cash to bid.
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The family of a five-year-old girl killed on her way to feed ducks have said they feel more could have been done to prevent her death.
BBC: Lily-Mae Jeffries' Weymouth crash death ruled accident
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Last year, House of Reeves in Croydon, a 144-year-old store run by the same family for five generations, was burnt to the ground during the summer riots.
BBC: Carver family will rebuild Wolverhampton business
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Family and friends of a five-year-old boy who was killed by a hit-and-run driver 10 years ago will mark his 16th birthday by releasing lanterns later.
BBC: Sam Walker: Lantern tribute for hit-and-run victim
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She and her partner found out about the Danish option on the internet and now have a family consisting of two mothers, identical twin boys who are nearly five months old, and a girl of two, all fathered by the same anonymous Danish man.
BBC: Business booms for Danish sperm
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Sixty-five-year-old Samuel Rottstein(ph) was just an infant during World War II when his family had to flee the advancing German army.
NPR: Rockets Drive Israelis into Bomb Shelters
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The destruction of one house left a 42-year-old man dead and injured seven members of his family, including his father, wife and five of his children, he said.
BBC: Palestinian killed in Gaza air strike
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"When my husband deployed, I was working sixty-plus hours a week and suddenly taking care of our five-year-old daughter by myself, and this house, and the bills, and volunteering with the Family Readiness Group for my husband's unit " She paused long enough to light a cigarette.
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