Retired solicitor Sue Turnbull, from the group Save Our Local Village Environment (SOLVE), said she was delighted by the news.

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News of the discussions about a sporting village emerged on the day environment minister Alex Attwood granted planning permission for the redevelopment of Windsor Park football stadium in south Belfast.

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Some New Orleans neighborhoods remind me of pre-1980 Greenwich Village, offering a charming urban environment without either the extortionate price tag or oppressive density.

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The Environment Agency has issued an apology for failing to warn residents in an Oxfordshire village about the risk of flooding.

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To prove the experiment would work in an isolated environment, he set up another "hole in the wall" computer in a village 300 miles away.

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In addition, they stressed that because our global village is growing more complex and competitive by the day, our ability to adapt to this environment will be vital in the future for every individual living on our planet.

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Beeatoona organized a day of the environment that brought together 200 students from different religious backgrounds to plant 300 trees in the village of Jisr Al Kadi in the Aley region.

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