Mrs Vaudin said the offer of respite care over full weekends to enable carers to take an off-island break was particularly welcome.
She said the group, which represents nurses, was pleased University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust had offered a last-minute discount to allow 180 off-island operations to go ahead in December.
The two other possibilities, which were ruled out, were on-island heat treatment - in an incinerator, gasification or pyrolysis plant - or a further stage of processing to produce a fuel product, which would also be shipped off-island.
It's 1965, and a major storm is bearing down on New Penzance Island, off the coast of New England, and their disappearance sets off an island-wide search and rescue mission.
No sooner has Dan driven the kids to Poppy and Nana's house for the annual family get-together in off-season Rhode Island than he's meeting cute with Juliette Binoche in a secondhand bookstore.
The main island, Apo Island -- not to be confused with the better known island of the same name off the island of Negros in the central Philippines -- is a palm-fringed beauty, ringed by golden sand and home to an emerald-green interior lagoon embraced by mangroves.
The team from the University of Rennes in France say they found the crystal while examining the wreck of a British ship sunk off the island of Alderney - in the English Channel - in 1592.
As long as you can wield off autograph requests from island co-inhabitants like Mariah Carey and Oprah (we can dream, right?), this indulgent escape will have you tossing bills and popping bottles.
And since it ended in a tie, we are exchanging -- and paying off our debts at the same time -- this is Goose Island 312 beer from my hometown of Chicago.
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Alexandroupoli is also the jumping-off point for ferries to Samothraki island.
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For a watery adventure, pick up a vessel at Sunshine Kayaking in Gibsons and drive 20km north to the Sechelt Inlet, from which you can paddle out to one of the off-shore islands, such as Poise Island.
Families and businesses have been scrambling to get supplies onto the island before the cut-off date.
With day-traders thriving and Datek taking off, Island's volume has swelled to 34 million shares per day recently.
Those wealthy Russians, who are the largest foreign investors, are likely to pull their funds out of the island if the one-off tax is too high.
Try an ice-cold platter of the rare, tight-shelled Cranberry Island oysters, from off the Maine coast, with a decent Chablis.
Seven areas of the island have been parcelled off as tourism-development zones.
When, half an hour later, on the other side of the island, I stepped off the pink-and-blue-painted No. 10, Andrea Wass, a winning thirty-eight-year-old insurance underwriter, was there to escort me down the steep driveway to her charming rented house.
It is of an island people cut off from the wider world - isolated and exposed.
They run a firm called Wired Island from a two-story building off the Leeward Highway in Providenciales.
The government is talking of reopening a Greek Orthodox seminary on the island of Halki off Istanbul, a long-running demand of the European Union.
It is four minutes till midnight on a cool evening on Star Island off Miami, and outside a mansion-turned-nightclub the press pit is getting cranky.
As a result, what starts off unpromisingly as the tarted-up travelogue of a privileged island-hopper turns into a journey of scientific discovery to the corners of the earth.
And if you go across the river to Ham, only a matter of a few minutes walk away from Teddington, there is an island of council housing, cut-off from the commuter trains and upwardly-mobile cafe bars.
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Only a 14 mile ferry ride off the coast of surf-haven Montauk, NY, the island welcomes world-weary travelers a place of refuge.
The dingo has been implicated in driving the now extinct Tasmanian "tiger" - or thylacine - off mainland Australia, and marginalising it in its final island habitat.
Either on your way to or from the island, stopping off at Kishorn Seafood Bar, Ross-shire, is a must.
Off South-West Africa, the discovery in 1843 of the tiny island of Ichaboe, covered in 25 feet of penguin and gannet excrement, led to a guano rush followed by a mutiny and battles.
Despite a fervent fan campaign to save Mr Toad's Wild Ride, the Coney Island-style, runaway car goof was run off the road in 1998 in favour of the Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.
While some homeowners and advocates have complained the "Rapid Repairs" program got off to a slow start, Bloomberg and residents of a Sandy-ravaged island heralded it Friday as a first-time initiative that helped about 54, 000 get back home.
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