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ADRIANO Basso has set his sights unequivocally on promotion to the Premier League this season, insisting anything less would be a waste of his time.
The Brazilian veteran, signed on a free transfer this summer, has been a focal point of Hull City's promising start to the season and the Tigers head to Doncaster tonight on the tails of the Championship's early pace-setters. After a point at Bristol City briefly lifted Nigel Pearson's side into the play-off places over the weekend, a win at the Keepmoat Stadium would again propel the Tigers into the top six.
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THE vote for Liverpool's first elected mayor is a waste of time because the winner will lack the muscle to deliver economic growth, an explosive report has warned.
There is "no point" in switching to a mayor unless he or she runs all of Merseyside, rather than simply Liverpool, the study has found - an option not on the table.
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LIKE so many other history graduates, I've found that one of the most useful phrases in the English language is: 'Sorry, mate, not my period.'
I've used it countless times over the years when my sons have asked for help with their homework on the Tudors, or when arguments in the pub have turned to why exactly it was that a nation as apparently civilised as Germany turned so enthusiastically to Nazism in the Thirties.
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A CONSULTATION exercise on a sell-off of more than 60 open green sites in Bristol has been condemned as a waste of time and money.
Campaigners told the Evening Post that people were not properly consulted and the sites were chosen based on flawed information.
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LIKE so many other history graduates, I've found that one of the most useful phrases in the English language is: 'Sorry, mate, not my period.'
I've used it countless times over the years when my sons have asked for help with their homework on the Tudors, or when arguments in the pub have turned to why exactly it was that a nation as apparently civilised as Germany turned so enthusiastically to Nazism in the Thirties.
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LEGAL experts have warned that the Bill currently going through Holyrood to allow for the release of a secret document about the Lockerbie case is a waste of time and taxpayers' money.
The unpublished 800-page report from the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) explains the six reasons why the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing should be referred back to court for a fresh appeal.
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LIKE so many other history graduates, I've found that one of the most useful phrases in the English language is: 'Sorry, mate, not my period.' I've used it countless times over the years when my sons have asked for help with their homework on the Tudors, or when arguments in the pub have turned to why exactly it was that a nation as apparently civilised as Germany turned so enthusiastically to Nazism in the Thirties.
'You're a historian, Tom. Tell us how it could have happened.' 'Sorry, mate, not my period.' The truth (and whisper it quietly) is that I've long forgotten almost all the history I was taught during my three idyllic, and heavily subsidised, years at Cambridge in the early Seventies.
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The abolition of South West Regional Development Agency has been labelled a "farce" after it emerged the Government will carry out a consultation into the move - even though it is already being wound down.
The move to consult over the axing of all nine of England's regional development agencies has been branded a "waste of everyone's time" by Labour.
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AN offer by Communities Secretary Eric Pickles, pictured, to bring back weekly rubbish collections has met with short shrift in the Bristol area.
In Bristol, Cabinet Councillor Gary Hopkins said throwing money at damaging our environment was disgraceful.
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THE RECENT PROTESTS IN HAITI against United Narions peacekeepers who allegedly sexually abused a Haitian man occurred, unlorcunacely, at a time when t...