At the same time, it urged authorities in Baghdad to revisit the decision to delay the vote in the two Sunni provinces and to schedule voting there soon.

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The councillors were due to come to a decision last year but asked for a delay - this week is crunch time for Cumbria's nuclear waste dump vote.

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Scottish Labour MSP Rhoda Grant said she was disappointed at the time it had taken to reach this decision and asked what had caused the delay.

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