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Rolling Stones podcast Hang Fire said an announcement about the album was due in September, with the release coming in October.

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Writing in The Guardian, he said that crises “don’t take holidays, and don’t politely hang fire – certainly not to suit the convenience of a departing PM and the whims of two potential successors.”

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Moss said that officials at the ski resort pulled all other recreators down from the mountain out of concern that snow hanging above the avalanche’s crown — a so-called hang fire — might put others in danger.

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Shauna Guinn, co-owner of Hang Fire in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, said the decision to close after a decade of building the business was "heart-breaking".

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Ms Guinn, who owns the Hang Fire business with her partner Sam Evans, had to make 16 members of staff redundant and contact 1,300 customers to cancel their reservations last week.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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