She quotes a study of people in unhappy marriages which followed up the couples five years later.

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"It's like finding a treasure, " she said, explaining the success of the show, which has followed in the footsteps of other Scandinavian TV hits The Killing and The Bridge.

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The government intervention which followed included an improvement plan, which a council spokeswoman said she was confident would be removed after the grading.

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She said Bush officials were given a list of policy initiatives, which they followed, and that they put in motion a strategy to eliminate al Qaeda.

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Her remarks followed an earlier interview she gave to ABC Punto Radio in which she said Spain's TVE channel would find it "really difficult" to stage the contest.

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Once out of office, Baroness Thatcher afforded the prime ministers who followed her, space to decide how to confront such challenges, challenges which she believed were not unique to Northern Ireland.

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Mrs Towner said the couple were inspired by last week's High Court ruling, which followed a case taken by 72-year-old Yvonne Watts from Bedford, after she was forced to pay for a hip operation in France.

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The 37-year-old actress previously said she decided to have the double mastectomy followed by reconstructive surgery after learning she carries a mutation of the BRCA1 gene, which sharply increases her risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer.

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