Peter Beales, who grew the Queen's rose for her Diamond Jubilee last year, died last month, aged 76.
The U.S. economy generated 76, 000 jobs per month last year, only 84, 000 per month short of what is needed to simply keep the unemployment rate from rising.
Overall, average house prices in Scotland have fallen 0.5% on the same period last year but the number of transactions in July was up 7% on the same month last year and up 21% on June, the index showed.
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Every month this year, more American troops have been killed as compared with the same month last year.
Energy demand was the main culprit last month, with May imports of crude oil rising 21% from the same month last year.
In August, consumption of electricity was up 9.1% from the same month last year but down 0.1% from the preceding month.
Our minds are no less inventive, our goods and services no less needed than they were last week or last month or last year.
The deadly apparel-plant fires in Bangladesh last year and last month's building collapse, which killed more than 800 people, revealed safety hazards, labor-rights violations and unauthorized subcontracting of Western brands' orders.
The deadly apparel-plant fires in Bangladesh last year and last month's building collapse, which killed more than 700 people, revealed safety hazards, labor-rights violations and unauthorized subcontracting of Western brands' orders.
Japanese retail statistics show that purchases by non-Japanese were 2.2 times higher in February, when the Chinese New Year is usually observed, compared with the same month last year at least in part a reflection of growing Chinese buying power.
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Which brings us to the fourth-to-last Monday in the last month of the year.
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And the housing market is collapsing: prices have fallen by 11% in a year, and the number of new mortgage approvals in July was 71% lower than the same month last year.
The figure was the lowest since January last year and the ninth month-on-month decline.
Americans are consuming less and saving more--their savings rate hit a 15-year high last month.
It estimates that 3, 000 Eritreans alone fled their repressive and impoverished country each month last year.
Indexes for expected prices, both paid and received, declined moderately, after reaching multi-year highs last month.
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The economy expanded by 3.9% in January compared with the same month last year.
The number fell to 2.48 million in January, still greater than any other month last year.
In October, federal tax receipts were 4% lower than in the same month last year.
But the latest March figure is 13% below the number recorded in the same month last year.
In the space of just one month last year, more than 30 elephants were killed by poachers.
On Thursday China announced that its exports in May surged 48.5% compared to the same month last year.
Before he signed his ten-year contract last month, he made it clear he had no interest in testing the free-agent market.
Gun sales reached at least a 14-year high last month, according to a widely used, if imperfect, measure.
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In Sammamish, for example, listing prices are up nearly 13% in October since the same month last year.
Job cuts were down 39% in March from the same month last year.
Last year a three-month strike cost the company 1.6 trillion won and more than 100, 000 vehicles in lost production.
Colombia's exports to its neighbour were down more than 70% in January, compared with the same month last year.
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