Along the highway to Paphos, the city on the western coast where Aphrodite was born, nearly all of the billboards are for property developers.

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Stornoway was one of five mining companies with projects in the area named in the budget to extend the highway, along with Strateco, Abitex, Western Troy and Eastmain Resources.

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In western Wisconsin, an articulated lorry slid off a snow-covered highway and into the Red Cedar River, killing one person.

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In my dreams, you walk dripping from a sea journey on the highway across America in tears to the door of my cottage in the Western night.

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