Cheap land near the motorways attracts businesses like Amazon, which has set up a distribution centre in Peterborough, and Network Rail, which has its headquarters in Milton Keynes.

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Secklow Gate bridge in Milton Keynes, which crosses the town's market near Midsummer Arcade, was damaged by fire on 28 January 2010.

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The hospitals included in the review are Kettering - which is used by people living in Corby - Northampton, Milton Keynes, Luton and Dunstable, and Bedford.

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The temperature in the lorry, which was bound for Dover and Milton Keynes, was at -2C, officials said.

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Yahya Harun, 22, of Fishermead Boulevard in Milton Keynes, faces the same charge, which he also denies.

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Instead, the council in Milton Keynes has organised a fun day, which is taking place later, to honour local games makers, torch bearers and others who helped with the London Games.

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Milton Berle's Texaco Star Theater, which debuted in 1948, later became the Buick-Berle Show.

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He also revealed that only last week young people in Milton Keynes told him that they had heard offensive words being used in class - words which went unchecked.

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He sees himself as an objective scholar and in the earlier parts of this autobiography, which loosely takes the form of a diary, with entries signed Milton or Rose, he holds to the view that serious scholars in a scientific subject like economics are similarly objective and change their views in line with the evidence.

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