Vodafone customer Margate Noakes said a lack of signal was a "real nuisance".

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Assistant Divisional Officer Chris Noakes, of Essex fire and rescue service, said crews had been hindered by strong winds.

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The series finale saw the wedding of popular midwife Chummy - played by Miranda Hart - and policeman PC Noakes.

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Tim Noakes is a professor of sports science in Cape Town, South Africa and one of the leading theorists about running and achievement.

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Baroness Noakes, a Conservative former Treasury spokeswoman, struck a defiant note as she asserted she was proud to be on the "eurosceptic wing" of her party.

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Noakes, a sports medicine researcher at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, draws on what little study there has been in performance-enhancing drugs, including some just-revealed data compiled by the former East Germany.

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On 25 October 2010, Baroness Noakes, a former Conservative frontbencher, said that according to an independent report published this summer, the head of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) should already have left his post.

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The next explosion comes from Tim Noakes, the Discovery Health Chair of Exercise and Sport Science from the University of Capetown in a commentary ( Role of hydration in health and exercise) in which his take can succinctly be summarized as, if you get thirsty you should drink and that over-hydration is a much more common and dangerous risk to the athlete than dehydration.

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