This was a 17-mile route, and there were clashes with police all along the way.

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Shortly after, the Spurs went on a 17-game win streak en route to a 59-win season.

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The 17-mile (26km) route will follow an old Great Western Railway branch line through a tunnel at Grenofen built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

BBC: Grenofen tunnel

The airline confirmed the new route to Geneva would operate five times a week from 17 December through to 24 April 2011.

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The plane had just departed Teterboro Airport en route to Georgia when it began spiraling out of control at about 17, 000 feet and crashed on a wooded median on Interstate 287 near Morristown.

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Luke Morrison, 29, completed the 50-mile route around the island in just over eleven hours, returning to Hill Head near Fareham at 17:15 BST on Monday.

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The Condor Rapide was en route from the Channel Island of Guernsey to Poole in Dorset when the alarm was raised at about 17:30 BST on Sunday.

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It handed its China routes to smaller rival Hong Kong Dragon Airlines Ltd, in which Cathay now has a 17.79 percent stake, under Hong Kong's "one carrier, one route" policy, which was recently relaxed.

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