Andrew Ward from Leadenham near Lincoln has sent 55 bales of hay and silage to Bootle to help farmers affected by March's snowstorm.

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Smith becomes former Celtic midfielder Lambert's third close season signing after midfielder Andrew Crofts and defender Elliott Ward.

BBC: Norwich City swoop for Rangers' Steven Smith

As a result St Paul's councillor Andrew Lansley spent his spare time over the weekend collecting rubbish in his ward.

BBC: Household rubbish piled up outside a house in Cheltenham

Four Lib Dem MPs - Sarah Teather, David Ward, Julian Huppert and John Leech - voted against the government while Charles Kennedy and Andrew George abstained on the second reading of the legislation needed to implement the three-year cap.

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Andrew Bindman, a doctor at San Francisco General Hospital, where a quarter of ward-time is taken up by homeless people, speculates that as the gap between the insured and the uninsured continues to widen, and as the number of those without coverage extends further into the middle class, it will become politically impossible to ignore.

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Moldovan prop Vadim Cobilas, hooker Joe Ward, number eight Mark Easter and locks Fraser McKenzie and Kearnan Myall all took their bow, along with centre Andrew Higgins and winger Joaquin Tuculet.

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