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/ 8 December 2004
A British sailor made waves in a round-the-world yachting competition on Tuesday when he used his radio to propose to his sweetheart, who is also a rival competitor. The famously rough seas at Cape Horn, on the southern tip of South America, did nothing to dampen the ardour of Graham Thompson (31) who asked 30-year-old girlfriend Laura Alexander the crucial question.
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/ 8 December 2004
Not so long ago in a galaxy 8km southeast of Philadelphia, Mike Degirolamo had a plan to build a large model of a vehicle from the Star Wars movies. But the authority in his sector sought to suppress it. The plan was to build a six metre by three-and-a-half metre model of a Jawa Sandcrawler, a relatively obscure icon from the original Star Wars film.
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/ 8 December 2004
Radio Pretoria’s application to have its plea for renewal of its broadcasting licence heard in the Constitutional Court was refused on Wednesday. The court ruled that the dispute over the granting of a four-year licence to the community broadcaster is ”not yet ripe for hearing” because the full facts of the issue are not yet on record.
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/ 8 December 2004
Five police officers are among 48 people arrested for dealing in drugs on Wednesday, after a year-long investigation in the Northern Cape. The inspector, two sergeants and two constables were arrested with the other suspects in pre-dawn raids. A female civilian employee of the police was also taken into custody.
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/ 8 December 2004
The delicate, human side of Godzilla played by a real actor has drawn crowds for 50 years and shows that high-tech Hollywood doesn’t have all the answers, the creators of the Japanese monster’s latest instalment said on Wednesday. True to tradition, the film was shot almost entirely with a man dressed up as the fire-breathing giant reptile.
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/ 8 December 2004
He’s skinny, he rarely baths and he lives in a derelict house with the ultra-creepy Basil Tramplebone, but Measle Stubbs is the good guy of the story and beneath the patchy clothes and smelly exterior is a sharp intellect and brave heart. Just as well really because Measle has his fair share of adversity to […]
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/ 8 December 2004
The current efforts to resolve the 18-year conflict in northern Uganda is "a historic opportunity to end the country’s humanitarian emergency", according to the United Nations emergency relief coordinator and under-secretary general for humanitarian affairs, Jan Egeland.
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/ 8 December 2004
A two-day meeting of the South African Reserve Bank’s monetary policy committee started in Pretoria on Wednesday morning with two-thirds of economists surveyed seeing no change in the current 7,5% repo rate, but a third expecting a 50 basis-points cut.
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/ 8 December 2004
Thirty correctional services officials were arrested in KwaZulu-Natal on Wednesday in connection with a R30-million medical aid fraud scam, Scorpions spokesperson Makhosini Nkosi said. The arrests stem from information given to the Jali Commission of inquiry into prison corruption and an investigation which began in 2002.
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/ 8 December 2004
Iraq’s interim president accused Iran on Wednesday of meddling in the Iraqi election process, adding to mounting concerns about the viability of the landmark vote scheduled for January 30. But United States President George Bush once again scotched any notion that the elections might be delayed.