had

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Two weeks after Nancy Guthrie's disappearance investigators revealed they had found several gloves, with the closest discovered about two miles from her home.

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Speaking afterwards, the 30-year-old said she had been "feeling great for this entire indoor season", adding: "Sometimes you just have to be patient, get race-sharp and wait for the times to come."

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By then expats had left China in droves, many of them saying too much had changed.

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"One of the two lines had been closed by the sea - we had to wait in a queue of trains all relying on the remaining track and eventually crawled forward, after a delay," she adds.

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Writer Stuart Heritage, who has had the honour of cooking apple crumble for Lawson, says now "the landscape has changed an awful lot for cookery shows".

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