Home Secretary Theresa May has abandoned a pledge to reintroduce identity checks on everybody leaving the UK by 2015, Labour says.

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Shanta, an abandoned woman who lives in a home for widows, is one of them.

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India were beating England 5-0 before the seven-match one-day series was abandoned having earlier earned a comprehensive 2-0 home victory over Australia in a Test series.

BBC: Pietersen praises collective move

April is photographed on the bike - later found abandoned against a fence - on the green near her home in Machynlleth, Powys.

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On Tuesday, Shanghai's housing bureau effectively abandoned its plan to let long-term residents purchase a second home.

WSJ: China Housing Prices Fall Again

In Division Three, Whitchurch's home game against Coleshill and the Shropshire derby between Bridgnorth and Oswestry were abandoned without a ball being bowled.

BBC: Newport avoid rain to beat Unity

Several years ago, after being abandoned by her husband, she returned to her childhood home and began earning a livelihood by starting her own tailoring shop with a microloan.

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He wants the bill to be simplified, so that anyone who can prove their partner has been violent, abandoned the family home or is guilty of infidelity is automatically assumed to have a form of "psychological incapacity".

BBC: Philippines eyes easier marriage annulment

So he spent five years building a 20, 000-square-foot castlelike home surrounded by a 12-foot-deep, 5-acre moat dug out of an abandoned tomato field.

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