Soon Jubilee Gardens are full of laughter as poem-baggers run to and fro, leaping in the air and diving on the grass to snare their quarry.

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Oxfordshire villagers are fighting against plans to reopen a quarry near their homes.

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Eleven workers in the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) Quarry Cafe and Quarry Shop have lost their jobs.

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Besides being home of a prison for women, Chowchilla is known for a bizarre 1976 incident in which a kidnapped bus with 26 children and their driver was buried in a local rock quarry.

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Kaplan's quarry is students like Jascob, who won't quit their jobs to attend class, but fit them in when they can.

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Gordon Best, regional director of the Quarry Products Association NI, said that smaller companies may not survive if they do not get paid for their work.

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