Mr Lawton's wife Lynda raised the alarm when he failed to pass the finish line of the Taygetos Challenge 2012, near Kalamata, in western Greece.
Situated on the western fringe of Greece's Dodecanese islands, Karpathos itself feels rather remote.
Tax evasion, coupled with government spending in Greece has helped put Western Europe on life support for much of the last year and a half.
Long term, I think copper will be dependent more on Asian demand and the recovery in Western economies than this type of situation (Greece).
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Its cultural influences, its religious establishments, even its political mechanisms were a remarkable amalgam of Eastern and Western traditions carried here along trade routes from Greece, Persia, Syria, India and China.
But these days, Greek diplomacy in the Balkans is not simply a matter of siding with traditional friends, as it was in the early 1990s, with sometimes explosive consequences for Greece's relations with the western world.
One of the oldest cities in the world, Athens is the capital of Ancient and modern Greece and is considered the birthplace of Western civilisation.
Their regional grouping, Western nations, was the only contested election - Sweden and Greece also ran for seats.
Greece has almost double the number of shops per head as the western European average, says McKinsey.
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It will join two other western Balkan countries: Macedonia, whose negotiations are blocked by its name dispute with Greece, and Croatia, which is close to membership.
The only two countries in western Europe to have increased the number of party members in the past 30 years are Greece and Spain.
Finally, Athens has set out to expand their local production potential by offering exploration bids off their Western coast, as well as entering into discussions with Cyprus in a bid to set up Greece as a transport hub for natural gas from the Leviathan natural gas field.
In western Europe Roma migrants have faced firebomb attacks in Italy, pogroms in Belfast and forcible evictions in Greece.
Since the golden age of Greece, there has been only one era of reason in twenty-three centuries of Western philosophy.
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Since Brigadier Saunders's death, Mr Simitis has promised to raise Greece's sloppy standard of police work and to co-operate more closely with western agencies to tackle terrorism.
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