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Chelsea take Premier League title Summary 10 May 2010 London football club Chelsea have won this year's English Premier League title. They won their last game 8-0 which prevented their rivals Manchester United from overtaking them. Reporter: Alex Cap
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Chelsea take Premier League title Vocabulary dramatic late twist an exciting and unexpected change to what people thought would happen jittery nervous monopoly complete control over silverware a large silver cup given as the prize for winning a sport
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Record blow for teenage sailor Summary 5 May 2010 A 16-year-old Australian girl is nearly home after sailing around the world. But she may not have sailed far enough to get the record as the youngest person to make the journey. Reporter: Nick Bryant
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Record blow for teenage sailor Vocabulary the final stretch of the last part of epic voyage long and difficult journey a couple of days shy of a few days before circumnavigated the globe sailed completely around the world to sail solo non-stop and un
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Executions in The Gambia Summary 31 August 2012 The President of the West African state of The Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, is looking increasingly isolated because of his threat to execute all death row prisoners by the middle of September. Nine have been
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Executions in The Gambia Vocabulary grim depressing death row a prison block or section for prisoners sentenced to death imminent soon to happen mounting arranging or setting up coup plots secret plans to make a sudden and illegal seizure of power fr
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Environmental protection targets missed Summary 3 May 2010 A major study has confirmed that the world's governments will not meet their internationally-agreed target of reducing the global loss of species and nature by 2010. Reporter: Richard Black R
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Environmental protection targets missed Vocabulary the conservation movement groups and organisations that work to protect the environment significantly curbing reducing by a large amount the rate of biodiversity loss the speed at which different pla
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Armstrong's signature for sale Summary 14 April 2010 A piece of paper from the flight plan of the Apollo 11 moon landing has been sold in New York. The document was signed by Neil Armstrong, the first astronaut to walk on the moon in July 1969. Repor
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Armstrong's signature for sale Vocabulary astronaut person whose job it is to travel to outer space and explore the area outside the Earth's atmosphere it was bound to be it was expected that memorabilia objects that are collected because they are co
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Jurassic bugs Summary 30 August 2012 Scientists say they've found the oldest bugs of their type ever preserved in fossilised tree resin, in the Alps of northern Italy. The finding by an international team of researchers has been published in the Proc
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Jurassic bugs Vocabulary chipping away at knocking off bits of (rocks) miniscule very very small preserved maintained in its original state magnified close-up resin sticky flammable organic substance adapt adjust, cope with striking echoes close simi
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Earthquake science Summary 5 April 2010 A team of scientists say they can explain why many more people died in the earthquake in Haiti compared to the much larger quake in Chile. Report The geophysicists, from the U.S. Geological Survey and from Harv
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Earthquake science Vocabulary geophysicists scientists who study the forces that cause movement within parts of the earth strict building regulations strong rules and laws which say how buildings must be built as a consequence because of this factors
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Eriksson named Ivory Coast coach Summary 31 March 2010 Sven-Goran Eriksson has been named as the new coach of the Ivory Coast national football team. He'll have just over two months to prepare his new team for the World Cup tournament in South Africa
