The council also received more than 700 objections to the housing, with protestors claiming it would lead to increased traffic and destroy the character of the village, making the current centre a "ghost town".

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Ubisoft's long-running Ghost Recon series is also making a leap forward in time this year.

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It'll never force me to subscribe to a channel with a show about pawnshop owners making customized bikes for ghost-hunting housewives.

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Honestly, I thought Ghost Recon: Future Soldier should have gotten a mention, at least for making the single-player campaign competent.

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This focus on narrator-as-witness sharpens our involvement, so that when the governess spots Miss Jessel, her deceased predecessor, standing on the far bank of a pond, the space between the two figures collapses, making the contact more intimate than if the ghost whispered directly into her ear.

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