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  <&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One</&>
  <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies</&>
  <&>Victoria University of Wellington</&>

  <&>side two</&>
  <&>1:06</&>
  

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      radio new zealand news read by neil billington

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      the wanganui boyfriend of a nineteen year old oxford university
      student has been charged with her murder <,>

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      john tanner a twenty two year old classics student was charged
      in the oxford magistrate's court with strangling rachael maclean
      <,>

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      before his arrest tanner told the police he last saw rachael
      when she saw him off on a train to nottingham on april the
      fifteenth

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      he was arrested in nottingham after more than twenty four hours
      of police questioning

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      he's now being remanded in custody until may the ninth but does
      not have to appear in court again personally until may the
      thirtieth

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      there was no application for bail

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      the police have described the case as most unusual and say the
      exceptional circumstances will be apparent when all of the facts
      become known <,>

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      rachael's body was found on thursday evening at her <&>2:00</&>
      lodgings in argyle street cowley oxford <,>

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      thames valley police were criticised for taking so long to look
      under the floorboards in rachael maclean's lodgings which she
      shared with three other women students <,>

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      the police say they did not say <.>they</.> DID say they did not
      have sniffer dogs because of economy cuts and couldn't rip up
      people's houses every time someone was reported missing <,>

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      rachael maclean's mother joan says tanner had asked her daughter
      <&>pronounced as daughtee</&> to marry him but she told him she
      was not yet ready to settle down <,,>

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      a ground and air search has resumed for a tramper missing for a
      week in the midcanterbury bush

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      there's growing concern for the safety of the twenty one year
      old wellington man

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      colin james <?>bolitho</?> was last seen at the watch dog hut on
      the clyde river last sunday

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      it's thought he'd had little food and inadequate clothing for
      the conditions

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      the police have sent out an urgent appeal for any trampers and
      shooters who've been in the upper rangitata area to contact them
      if they have seen the missing man <&>3:00</&> <,,>

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      police are again patrolling duck shooting ponds in canterbury in
      a bid to head off potential trouble between shooters and animal
      rights supporters <,>

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      the save animals from exploitation group has served notice it
      intends taking its protest against this sport to the <?>mai mais</?>
      this season <,>

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      the police are concerned someone may get hurt if a confrontation
      erupts where firearms are legally in use <,>

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      kay fellows representing the protest group says they're also
      scared at the prospect of personal injury but are prepared to
      risk it to make the point <,,>

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      rebel national m p gilbert miles has told the government it has
      to start listening to the people

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      he says the country is in dire straits and people want some
      answers

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      mister miles says the way the national party is going it's
      possible a third party like the democrats will win a couple of
      seats

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      eighteen months from now we've got to start thinking about how
      we're going to win the next election and we have to answer to
      our constituents why we did certain things

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      we've <&>4:00</&> heard over ONE million people in this country
      that have taken some form of cut

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      are they going to vote at all

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      gilbert miles says because the national party has such a large
      number of m ps it runs the risk of not listening to the people
      who put them there and they have a right to be heard <,>

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      hundreds of thousands of people who survived bangladesh's worst
      cyclone now face the twin menace of hunger and disease as relief
      supplies trickle into devastated areas <,>

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      the official death toll stands at one hundred and twenty five
      thousand <,>

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      up to ten million people almost a tenth of bangladesh's one
      hundred and fifteen million population were left homeless when
      the killer cyclone packing winds of two hundred and thirty five
      kilometres an hour hit the densely populated coast for nine
      hours on monday

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      relief officials say communications with the disaster areas have
      been cut off preventing an accurate damage assessment <,>

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      the death toll is likely to rise as rescue <&>5:00</&> teams
      reach offshore islands still partly submerged in the bay of
      bengal which officials say is one of the worst hit areas <,>

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      rain and high winds generated by squalls in the aftermath of the
      cyclone have hampered relief efforts <,>

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      helicopters unable to land are dropping relief supplies to the
      islands and rough seas are preventing boats from ferrying
      supplies <,,>

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      iraqi troops have now abandoned military positions most of the
      way to the kurdish town of <?>dahuk</?> about forty kilometres
      south of the first safe haven set up by allied forces for
      kurdish refugees <,>

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      the evacuation clears the way for allied troops to extend
      southwards from their forward position which in the past week
      has already advanced ten kilometres

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      the allies have told the iraqis to withdraw from within a thirty
      kilometre radius of <?>zacho</?>

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      thousands of soldiers from nine western nations have already
      secured the town of <?>zacho</?> and a strip of territory along
      the border as far as the town of <?>amadia</?>

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      they plan to bring tens of thousands of the <&>6:00</&> kurdish
      refugees there from squalid camps in the mountains of the iraqi
      turkish border <&>6:04</&>
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