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Police have blocked off entrances and exits in an effort to compel the miners to come out.

Another neighbor drove her car directly through the Jensens property to escape the inferno, which had already blocked off the sole escape route.

Four years ago, he represented so-called Dreamers in a Supreme Court immigration case and won a 5-4 ruling that blocked the first Trump administration from repealing protection for the young immigrants who came to this country with their parents.

This means that instead of moving through a region relatively quickly, they get blocked over the same area leading to persistent rainfall for several days.

The schoolgirl was cycling with her mother alongside the Union Canal at Meggetland last week when a man, aged in his 50s or 60s, blocked her path.