In response, the Environment Agency (EA) has agreed to run a year-long pilot of renting out the five cottages, which will end in March 2013.

BBC: Goring Lock

After the review is completed it is hoped a pilot scheme will be run with a view to rolling it out across the country to other LEPs.

BBC: Lord Heseltine

As the plane took off the 50-year-old pilot reported feeling a "slight bump" and thought the aircraft had run over a light on the runway.

BBC: London

South Belfast was chosen for the pilot scheme due to its high crime levels, while a second trial run is planned for Omagh next April.

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The Newcastle pilot - run by Newcastle University and the city council - is part of a project involving six other European cities in France, Denmark, The Netherlands, Greece, Italy and Spain.

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Growing up as the son of a Connecticut Senator, he was the youngest pilot in the Navy in 1943, and an authentic, highly decorated hero who finished a bombing run after his plane was hit, already in flames, and about to crash.

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