abstract:A road number is often assigned to a stretch of public roadway. The number chosen is often dependent on the type of road, with numbers differentiating between interstates, motorways, arterial thoroughfares, two-lane roads, and so forth.
A number of different countries have sent navy patrols to the important sea route, but the immensity of the area targeted by the pirates has limited the effect of these few military ships.
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Those closed include the A66 trans-Pennine route, a number of stretches of the A595, and the Kirskstone and Hartside passes.
Councillors have been holding talks about the route for a number of weeks but on Monday morning, hours before the procession was due to begin, they held a 90-minute emergency meeting where they failed to reach agreement over the flags issue.