Aldridge's reward: Her client woos and becomes engaged to her estranged teenage daughter.

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Tom Daley had been due to make his first competitive appearance on Friday in the 10m synchro platform, but missed out after his partner Blake Aldridge's suffered a broken nose after he was involved in an alleged nightclub fracas in Southampton last Friday.

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"The golden postbox is a lovely reminder of an unforgettable year and I'm thrilled it's in my home town of Aldridge as the support I've had from all over the borough has been amazing, " she said.

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She was cast as Debbie Aldridge on BBC Radio 4's The Archers in 1991.

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The council said it worked with Amey, who maintain Walsall's street lights, to install the new floodlight in Aldridge.

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Shortly before, thanks to her brilliant cross-examination, Aldridge had won a repellent young brute's acquittal on a charge of murder.

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Moreover, today's big mergers may give birth to hard-to-beat Internet learning partnerships, according to Clark Aldridge, an education analyst at Gartner Group (IT) .

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The long list includes former actress Kitty Aldridge for her third novel, A Trick I Learned From Dead Men, while Ros Barber's The Marlowe Papers is the first novel written in verse to be recognised.

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