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Draconian drunk cycling law in Poland Summary 11 September 2012 Ministers in Poland are considering changing the country's law on drunk cycling. More than 200,000 people have been given prison sentences since the law was adopted 12 years ago. Reporte
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Spanish fans celebrate World Cup victory Vocabulary right through the night all night; until the morning high street the main road in a city or town victory parade public celebrations to mark the win lamp-posts tall poles to hold up street lights the
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Spanish fans celebrate World Cup victory Summary 12 July 2010 Spanish football fans have been celebrating all night after their team won the World Cup. In a dramatic final, Spain beat the Netherlands one-nil in extra time, with a goal by Andrs Iniest
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Tendulkar gives blood for biography Summary 21 July 2010 The publishers of a new biography of the Indian cricketing star, Sachin Tendulkar, say special editions of the book will contain drops of his blood. Copies go on sale in February, costing $75,0
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Californian stink! Vocabulary overwhelming very strong odour smell refineries industrial plants for purifying crude substances, such as petroleum the usual suspects the places most people would expect mistake error fertiliser-laden full of fertiliser
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Californian stink! Summary 13 September 2012 Air quality inspectors in southern California have traced a terrible smell which wafted 150 miles towards Los Angeles, to an inland sea created by mistake a hundred years ago when the entire Colorado River
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Frog antibiotics Vocabulary secreting releasing germs organisms that cause disease antibiotics drugs to cure infection swab take a small sample from combat fight against drug-resistant able to remain unaffected by drugs toxic poisonous benign safe fr
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Frog antibiotics Summary 30 August 2010 Scientists trying to develop a new range of drugs are starting to study a creature which has been around for over 200 million years. They're working on a new research project which will try to replicate the nat
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Dad Dancing Summary 10 September 2010 British people are frequently embarrassed by their fathers' dancing, so the term 'dad dancing' now means bad moves on the dance floor. Scientists at Northumbria University have analysed what makes dancing attract
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Nursery offers time for making babies Vocabulary nursery a place that cares for children hard to refuse difficult to say 'no' to look after care for once-off happening only one time dwindling falling languishes exists in a weak state pensioners elder
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Nursery offers time for making babies Summary 14 September 2012 Denmark has one of the lowest birth rates in the world. Now, a group of nurseries near Copenhagen are offering free nursery supervision to children in the hope that their parents will be
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Countries discuss Arctic claims Vocabulary temperatures measures of how hot or cold things are polar ice caps common terms for the permanently frozen areas of ice at the North and South Poles melt turn from a solid to a liquid state treasures preciou
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Countries discuss Arctic claims Summary 22 September 2010 Politicians and experts from around the world are meeting in Moscow to discuss who will control the large reserves of oil and gas thought to lie under the Arctic Sea. Reporter Steve Rosenberg
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Scientists discover earth-like planet Vocabulary dwarf star type of star similar to our sun light-years units for measuring long distances in space (how far light travels in a year) constellation group of stars that form a shape in the sky on paper i
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Scientists discover earth-like planet Summary 1 October 2010 Astronomers have discovered a planet that could support crucial conditions needed for life. They say it could be more Earth-like than any other found outside our solar system. Reporter: Nei
