Time and time again he thought he had it, only to find that he had failed again.

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Prosecutor Oliver Haswell told the court that Suffolk police officer Stott - who admitted a separate speeding offence in 2009 but kept his licence and his job - had failed to stop because he thought it was "former colleagues playing a prank".

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So Charles Force thought of a creative solution: If he could get more grease around the failed bearing, it would probably be fine.

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Senator Alan Maclean said he thought there would be a low turnout at the referendum as it had failed to capture the imagination of the public.

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He said he thought the drug would be most useful for patients for whom standard treatment had failed and in a "minority" of patients as a first-choice drug.

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