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A public enquiry is to decide this week whether to grant a multimillionaire investment banker linked to the UK Queen the right to ban locals from a private shooting estate he wants to create in the heart of Kent.
The paths that have been used for centuries run through the ancient Oxenden, Boughtonland and Pitt Woods outside Canterbury, and are believed to have included sections of paths that were once part of the Pilgrims Way network - immortalised in the 14th century book of the same name by Geoffrey Chaucer.
Villagers in Adisham and the surrounding area protested to Kent County Council (KCC) after three paths used on foot and horseback going through the woods and their surrounding farmlands were closed off by banker Timothy Steel -- who put up padlocked metal gates and barbed wire - and signs ordering them to keep out.
Retired businessman and protest organiser David Leidig, 73, said: "I used to walk my dogs there almost every day, then suddenly there were gamekeepers driving around on quad bikes chasing people away."
The villagers’ appeal that included more than 100 testimonies from people who had walked the paths going as far back as 1927 was accepted by the KCC last year after an eight year battle -and it ordered the paths registered as public rights of way.
But despite the decision the gates have remained in place and Mr Steel appealed which will now be heard at a three day public enquiry to take place at Adisham Village School this week (4 to 6 August).
One of his arguments is that the woodland is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) with rare birds like the green woodpecker and plants like the lady orchid.
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Keywords: queen, banker, garden, Adisham Village School
Title: A public enquiry is to decide this week whether to grant a multimillionaire investment banker linked to the UK Queen the right to ban locals from a private shooting estate he wants to create in the heart of Kent.
2010-09-07
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UK
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A Chinese house owner refused to allow a car that was left wedged in his building until the owner turned up to apologise - and agree to pay for the repairs.
Lu Zhou, 43, said: "I was playing cards with my friends when suddenly a car smashed through the wall, and when we ran outside we found the driver had run off.
"I had 11 people in the house and several were showered with rubble - and one needed hospital treatment.
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Keywords: car crash, house, China
Title: A Chinese house owner refused to allow a car that was left wedged in his building
2010-09-07
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China
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pictured: Vienna's panda baby.
The first snapshot of Vienna's panda baby show that it is in good health.
Panda specialist Eveline Dungl managed to take this photo while the panda mother left the baby box where it was born for a few moments to drink and eat some bamboo in Vienna's Schoenbrunn zoo .
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Keywords: Panda, bear
Title: Vienna's panda baby
2010-09-06
Vienna
Austria
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Christian Marti (Regional Director Europe McLaren Automotive), Kai Rodovsky, McLaren Hamburg & Antony Sherrif (Managment London), Frank Stephenson, McLaren at the presentation of the MP4-12C, at Brise Studios Hamburg,04. September 2010, Foto: People Picture / Photonews
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Keywords: McLaren, MP4-12C
Title: McLaren at the presentation of the MP4-12C, at Brise Studios Hamburg, 04. September 2010
2010-09-04
Hamburg
Germany
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On paper, it seemed like a great idea.
Now art experts have a nail biting week waiting for the world's largest paper chandelier to arrive from India, where it was commissioned.
The 26 metre long and 11 metre wide light is made of 15,000 pieces of paper drawn on by more than 8,000 slumdog youngsters and then put together buy traditional Indian artists.
Now the work will go on show in London's former fish market Billingsgate next week (sept 11) where education charity ARTiculate will use it promote its work in India.
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Keywords: chandelier, paper, India
Title: On paper, it seemed like a great idea. Now art experts have a nail biting week waiting for the world's largest paper chandelier to arrive from India, where it was commissioned.
2010-09-03
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India
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The former head of a special Natascha Kampusch case investigation group has criticised judges for acquitting her kidnapper’s best mate of complicity in suicide charges.
Ludwig Adamovich said about the recent trial against Ernst Holzapfel: "They didn’t inquire properly at all."
The businessman from Vienna, Austria, was found not guilty of having assisted pervert Wolfgang Priklopil in escaping justice by committing suicide on the day Kampusch fled his clutches four years ago.
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Keywords: Natascha Kampusch, Ernst Holzapfel
Title: The former head of a special Natascha Kampusch case investigation group has criticised judges for acquitting her kidnapper’s best mate of complicity in suicide charges.
2010-09-03
Vienna
Austria
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This lucky duck had police in a flap after it got trapped in the wheels of a 60 ton lorry.
Startled motorists spotted the frightened bird quacking for help from the wheelarch of the truck as it hurtled along a dual carriageway in Vienna, Austria.
After flagging the lorry down, police helped remove the duck from its perch where it is believed to have got stuck during the driver's last service station break.
After medical checks, police released the ruffled but otherwise healthy bird on a pond in nearby Tuerkenschanz Park, once they found no evidence of fowl play.
"People saw its head sticking out of the wheelarch clearly very much alive but obviously very frightened. It's amazing that it wasn't injured but we're very happy we helped save it," said one officer.
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Keywords: duck, lorry, truck, stuck
Title: This lucky duck had police in a flap after it got trapped in the wheels of a 60 ton lorry.
2010-09-03
Vienna
Austria
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Romanian authorities forced the owner of a horse, left abandoned and beaten on a road, to take it back and to supervise it during its treatment.
An abandoned horse, beaten and starved, made passers-by to call police and local authorities, in Suceava, northern Romania.
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Keywords: horse beating
Title: Authorities forced the owner of a horse, left abandoned and beaten on a road, to take it back and to supervise it during its treatment.
2010-09-02
Suceava
Romania
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Miss Spring bailed out 6 hours before the closure of the auction. The 18 year old hoped to auction off her virginity, possibly to a foreigner. She's even had bidders, the highest offers came from Britain and Ireland, yet she decided to quit the official pages of the auction site when she learned that Tabu TV- hosting the site was about to make a profit on her.
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Keywords: virginity, bid,
Title: The 18 year old hoped to auction off her virginity, possibly to a foreigner.
2010-09-02
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