U.N.Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told BBC television that was a painful lesson, and the United Nations will make changes for next month's vote.

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Former Millennium Stadium executive and ex-Wales rugby international Rupert Moon told the BBC it was primarily a rugby stadium and would never be a Premiership-standard pitch.

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Last December, one of the last men on the Moon, Harrison Schmitt, told BBC News that he believed Nasa and other government run space agencies were "too inefficient" to be able to send astronauts back to the Moon.

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"The most exciting thing I saw as a child was this vision of von Braun going to the back of the Moon, " he explains to BBC News Online, as he relaxes in his plus-fours and diamond socks in preparation for a round of golf.

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