Cheshire's Winsford salt mine, the biggest supplier of rock salt in England, has said it only has a few days' supply of surface salt left.

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Councillors in Leeds and neighbouring Kirklees warned they had less than two days' supply of salt left, while private salt firm Grittit has brought in security guards after 75 tonnes of material was taken from its depots nationwide.

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The fact that I only have a year left rubs salt into the wound.

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Mr Romney had left Bain to run the Salt Lake City Olympics shortly before the fateful buy-back took place.

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The story of the former Soviet Union's disastrous policy of cotton-growing in Uzbekistan, of the wind-blown salt that its depletion of the Aral has left, and of the pollution remaining, makes for very depressing reading.

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With just over 20 minutes left it looked like being the crucial score and Barkley rubbed salt into the wound with a simple conversion.

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The all-pervasive sea water still left its mark, seeping into the frames and discoloring them with salt stains and algae.

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These can be as tiny as a millionth the size of a grain of salt which can amount to as little as a few cells of skin or sweat left in a fingerprint.

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Beneath the burned odor left by the vacuum, he could smell the dust still in the rug salt and sand and dried skin from her kids, her husband, her now dead dog.

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In 1999, he left the business world to become the president and chief executive of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City, after fiscal and ethical problems emerged under the previous management.

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