But we do have sites that our other teams are working in and those places are really remote.

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Cumbrians often lament the fact that Sellafield is a rarity: a really big employer in their remote corner of England.

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Some really like the TiVo Slide Remote, which is nice if you want to drop the extra cash on it, but having the full-screen keyboard available for searching is very convenient.

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"You have to tell them because this is the minimum honesty, you have to make sure you tell the patient there's a remote possibility they could get infected, otherwise you are really hiding very important information from them, " he told File on 4.

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Just as its difficult in the US for people to pack their things and head for North Dakota to work for companies exploiting the Bakken shale, many of the regions in Russia with the highest wages are extremely remote and difficult to get to (not to mention really cold in the winter).

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"Farmers are telling us that they have so many dead stock that they're struggling to get those animals collected, particularly in remote areas where driving to those farms with lorries to pick up the stock is really difficult, " she told BBC Radio Wales.

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Five years ago, when this problem really began to bite, there was a story of an elderly lady who lived alone in a remote house in Yorkshire.

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