Dumfries Sheriff Court heard how Wendy Cuerda-Rodriguez had been alone in her car when she stopped at a red light in the village.

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However, other colliery sites in the area are gradually coming back to life, often as business parks, nature conservation areas or in the case of the old Ollerton pit site, an "energy village" of housing, offices and light industry all built along environmentally conscious lines.

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In the dazzling light of late afternoon, in the nearby village of Weissbad, a smiling farmer named Johan shows me his herd.

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Sipping lemon-ginger tea on the cushions of our house's rooftop pavilion, I watch the first light spangle the leaves of the poplars along the village's irrigation stream, see lambs herded into a small willow-walled corral, a woman in a black robe and orange head scarf testing her lower back after filling her buckets.

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Light years, you might say, from the tiny Italian village of Orbassano, where Sonia Maino was born on Dec. 9, 1946 to construction worker Stefano and his wife Paola.

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And the area replaced by Washington Square Village (and the similar Silver Towers development to the south), was a light industrial district, similar to SoHo (further to the south) and NoHo (further to the east).

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