"As a director of children's services I cannot control what the police do, I cannot control what health does, " she said.

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"I am used to playing with pain but this was a new and different pain I cannot control, " he said on his website on Monday.

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In the process I have discovered that I cannot make them stop, but I can control my reaction to them.

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But I feel that control slipping away, and cannot remain part of a system where liking me or my work can be used against you.

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Thorpe's control and certainty at the wicket cannot be replaced, and I am concerned that Robert Key will not be able to steady the middle order as Thorpe has done so brilliantly for the last two years.

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