MSPs dismiss park boundary bill
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A plan to extend the Cairngorm National Park into Perthshire fails at its first parliamentary hurdle.
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By john ross  SCOTTISH Natural Heritage yesterday confirmed its objection to a huge wind farm planned for Lewis.   SNH board members reiterated their previous view that land covered by special protection area status might be harmed by the development.
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A total ban on smacking in England and Wales is rejected by ministers, after a review suggests parents oppose it.
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By Stephen Wall, San Bernardino County Sun, Calif.  Sep. 20--COLTON -- After hearing from more than a dozen county residents  who opposed the city's plans for annexation, the City Council on Tuesday night  voted unanimously to abandon the proposal.
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By Daniel Thigpen, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Feb. 17--STOCKTON -- County planners on Thursday rejected a proposal to turn nearly 400 acres of dairy farmland south of Manteca into space for new homes after opponents argued such a project would threaten existing dairies.
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Planners opposed a private developer's scheme for a visitor's centre at the Giant's Causeway, it emerges.
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Buckingham Palace on Friday dismissed as &quot;irresponsible&quot; newspaper reports that a kidnap threat forced Britain&#39;s Prince Harry to cut short a trip to a polo pony farm in Argentina.
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By Harris, Linda  City officials will have to find another way to fund their share of the riverfront park costs after voters this week narrowly rejected a $2.2 million excess levy that would have paid for it as well as other recreation projects.
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On Sunday voters rejected government-backed plans to simplify naturalisation procedures for second-generation foreigners. They also turned down a proposal to grant children born in Switzerland to foreign parents the automatic right to a Swiss passport.
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Board cites traffic, water concerns in deciding against Muslim sect's proposal.
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Lambasts DCA's 'unnecessary' focus on reducing costs Parliament's Constitutional Affairs Committee has categorically rejected the government's case for new arrangements in handling Freedom of Information requestsâ¦
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By Rob Young, Appeal-Democrat, Marysville, Calif.  Sep. 13--Sutter County supervisors could not muster the votes Tuesday to extend a moratorium on splitting land parcels in the Meridian and Robbins basins and around the Sutter Buttes.
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By Mary Divine, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Jun. 6--The Sierra Club went to court Tuesday to stop a proposed bridge across the St. Croix River, arguing the project is an improper retooling by the Bush administration of a plan rejected by the National Park Service in the 1990s.
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The European Commission says a road through an environmentally protected area should not be built.
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The decision by the doctors to reject their new deal with the province is a major setback for the Liberal government at Queen&#39;s Park.
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Ministers dismiss Tory claims they have failed to stop illegal immigrants entering Britain from France.
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A campaign to make the golden eagle Scotland's first national bird is rejected by MSPs.