The street lights switch-off will be rolled out across the rest of Dorset in the next year.
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The stringy branches floated in a cool breeze, while the leaves, like a swarm of arrowheads, flickered in the soft rays cast by the street lights.
The vehicle was "driving down the street with the lights turned out, " he said.
On holidays, her children and grandchildren would visit her, their cars crowding the driveway and spilling onto the street, the lights in the house burning late into the night.
Switching on the Regent Street lights in London will be a week earlier this year, on 7 November.
Residents are currently being asked for their views on the new street lights and consultation runs until 31 March.
Some residents have to cough up for maintaining the roads, pavements and street lights, looking after the parks and providing security.
The virtual absence of any attempt to impose order in the form of street lights or crosswalks is characteristic of a government that has no sense of obligation to its people and seeks only to protect itself.
We are here hours before we even realize there is a terrace, with a glittering view of the Regent Street Christmas lights, so we feel a childlike awe to be high up amongst them, rather than viewing them from the top deck of one of the red buses way down below.
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When the security forces cut the lights in one street, some enterprising residents managed somehow to bring them back on again.
And since the generators don't supply power to street lights on the estate, which is surrounded by forests, the power outages raised some specific concerns.
The traffic lights at the junctions with Victoria Road and Prince's Street on the A590 in Ulverston will all be upgraded, along with the lights at the pedestrian crossings at Swan Street in Ulverston, Swarthmoor and Lindal-in-Furness.
Planned changes include turning off some street lights, reducing the number of lights in some residential streets, and dimming lights on main roads, between midnight and the early hours.
Some residents in Dorset are calling on the county council to turn street lights back on at night time claiming the current switch-off is "dangerous".
Last week the Indiana city of Scottsburg made a bet on the future of its street lights with a little-known technology called LEPs light emitting plasma.
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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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These solid state lights have a 50, 000-hour lifespan and use half the electricity of traditional metal halide street lights.
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The Wall Street Journal Europe asked leading lights from international business, arts and culture to take a sentimental look at the watches and jewelry items that mean the most to them, and why.
Her 16th floor apartment is on 28th Street and when the lights and water went off "my cat got scared, " she says.
There were lights on the street but Mr Bullock's case was that it was not very well lit and there were large potholes.
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Now a Norwegian charity is running a pilot project to install 50 solar-powered street lights in the capital, while other donors are watching from a distance to see if that works.
As a desperate power company tried to reconnect tens of thousands of other people, Rainfall Productions called to ask if its men would stop by and shut down the village's automatic street lights.
Under the program, Chevron Energy Solutions will upgrade street lights with LED lighting technology from Bridgelux at no upfront cost to the cities.
Results from a global trial of light-emitting diode (LED) street lights confirm that the fixtures can deliver electricity savings of up to 85% over incumbent technologies.
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The rioters reportedly threw stones, smashed street lights and overturned cars.
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Lights in the apartments on the street turned out as residents went to sleep.
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The entire suburb is very dark because many street lights and neon signs have been turned off to save power.
From there we walked up to where the lights went on, at 39th Street, and crossed over into the land of the almost normal.
Last year, the U.S Army Corps of Engineers installed more than 1, 000 solar-powered street lights in Fallujah, a predominantly Sunni city in central Iraq that was the scene of a brutal battle between insurgents and U.S. soldiers in 2004.
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