She heard Syal's memories of the small mining village, with few distractions, where she grew up.

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"One of my abiding memories as a small boy is of Trevor Bailey and Willie Watson batting at Lord's to save the Test match against the Australians, " he said.

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But others worry that funding may be reduced as memories of scandal recede and even small agencies are sacrificed to reduce the growing budget deficits that are a prominent feature of this year's plan.

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And now, 50 years later, if you look at a movement called the new urbanists, for example, who are trying to re-create that more intimate scale of living, in many ways it's extrapolating what Disney built, which was a stylized version of a small town, which existed to some degree but never to the extent that our memories believe it.

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While the memories of economic gloom and doom in 2008 are not forgotten, 2010 has brought a small glimmer of hope.

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He says he spends his waking hours clinging onto memories of time spent with his family back home in Karachi, where he ran a small business selling leather goods.

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