Old Reds won the Tribute Western Counties North this season, and Hooper says the win and his try-scoring exploits have capped a perfect season.

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It added that the trend was most prevalent in the West Midlands, the North West and East Anglia, counties in western and eastern England.

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LaHood, 63, has represented 11 counties in central and western Illinois since entering Congress in 1994.

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At the general election that year, even as the rest of the country swung to the left, a crescent of counties astride the Appalachian range, from south-western Pennsylvania to north-eastern Mississippi, moved in the opposite direction.

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South Western Ambulance will continue to run 999 and other non-emergency ambulances in the three counties.

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The Republican base is found in the more affluent northern and western suburbs of Milwaukee, as well as in a few of the more lightly populated counties of central Wisconsin.

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