Chief Smith is a graduate of the National Fire Academy as well as the University of Redlands.

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Church, 18, of Redlands Close, Mirfield and Smith, 21, of Saville Street, Emley will be sentenced on Thursday.

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He held senior positions at Dixons between 1982 and 1987 before becoming group finance director at Redlands, the building materials company.

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While he struggled mightily with dyslexia, Boies won a scholarship to the University of Redlands in California, where he majored in history.

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The bizarre battle has dragged on for seven years and led to political intrigue that ousted nearly all of the Redlands City Council last year.

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Mr Defriend, who fought with the Royal Scots Greys regiment, was joined by fellow branch member and amputee Anthony Williams for the tandem jump at Redlands Airfield, near Swindon.

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The brawl finally landed in July on the desk of California Governor Gray Davis, who signed a bill whose sole intent is to let Roski develop the land irrespective of Redlands' opinion.

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William Cunningham, former mayor of dusty Redlands, Calif.

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In his rustic home tucked between orange and avocado groves, Cunningham wearily recalls wrangling with Roski over an odd 1, 200-acre piece of unincorporated land known as the "donut hole" because it is surrounded on all sides by Redlands.

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ESRI, run out of Redlands, Calif.

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Redlands is now suing the state.

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Theater owners from Redlands, Calif.

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