council
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The council said the affected road would be closed until it could deliver a "safe, engineered solution" and warned that further movement was likely to happen underneath it, making it "extremely unsafe".
From BBC
Partisanship, the first president observed, “serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration.”
Use the tool, using data from property portal Zoopla, to see how the cost of privately rented homes has risen in your council area in England, Scotland and Wales.
From BBC
Late last year the council agreed to take forward the by-law as the "only effective way forward", having ruled out other options.
From BBC
An interim council now rules Iran while the country seeks a successor to Khamenei.
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