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PUBLISHED: 17:22 EST, 7 March 2014 | UPDATED: 17:56 EST, 7 March 2014

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Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds have revealed details of share awards worth more than 35million.

Eleven members of the RBS executive committee, including boss Ross McEwan, cashed in long-term bonuses and were handed new awards potentially worth more than 23million.

At Lloyds 10 bosses have become eligible to cash in long-term bonuses worth more than 12million.

Payday: Eleven members of the RBS executive committee were handed new awards potentially worth more than 23million

Winning: At Lloyds 10 bosses have become eligible to cash in long-term bonuses worth more than 12million

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RBS and Lloyds in line for share awards worth more than 35m despite widespread losses

Published: Wednesday, March 5, 2014, 12:56a.m. Updated 9 hours ago

New Kensington officials said they are repairing the city-owned parking garage on Fourth Avenue.

Employees and students at the Citizens School of Nursing, located in the former Citizens General Hospital on Seventh Street, have voiced concerns about the safety of the three-story structure.

Complaints include poor lighting, rusted stairwells, a non-functioning elevator, poor winter maintenance and leaking ceilings

With three open houses at the school coming up, administrator Linda Ebel said she's concerned about the parking garage as prospective students' first exposure to the school. We want our students to feel safe and like it's a good environment, Ebel said.

Councilman Tim DiMaio said the city recently fixed stairwell lighting, several doors and decking. He said the elevator has been repaired but must be inspected before it can be used.

DiMaio and City Clerk Dennis Scarpiniti said they plan to bring in an electrician to address lighting elsewhere in the garage and plan to power-wash and paint the stairwells.

DiMaio was skeptical the leaks could be fixed if it's water trickling through expansion joints in the cement. But city officials said they would examine whether any pipes or other areas are leaking.

Ebel said a homeless person who had been frequenting the garage has not been seen recently.

Mayor Tom Guzzo said the city would do all it could to ensure students and others using the garage felt safe.

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New Kensington repairing city-owned garage on Fourth Avenue

Ruling will be sought on legal status of Thai govt

Asia News Network - Monday 3rd March, 2014

With the 30-day constitutional deadline for a new House of Representatives to convene after a general election today, a legal question has arisen as to whether the caretaker government can still be ...

Asia News Network - Monday 3rd March, 2014

A Muslim religious teacher was killed on Sunday and his son seriously injured in a gun attack outside a school in Thailand's Narathiwat province. The murder was the latest in a series of what ...

ABC Australia - Monday 3rd March, 2014

Thailand Anti-government protesters in Thailand have retreated to a central Bangkok park, freeing up traffic after blocking big intersections for more than a month, but Thailand's four-month ...

Euro News - Monday 3rd March, 2014

Anti-government protests in Thailand have moved to a central Bangkok park, allowing traffic to circulate freely after a month-long blockade shut down the main intersections of the capital. However, ...

eTN - Monday 3rd March, 2014

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Panic gripped Osmania General Hospital on Monday morning after an elevator carrying 16 persons including a doctor, patients and hospital staff got stuck between two floors. It was after a harrowing two hours that the occupants were rescued by Fire Department personnel.

Eyewitnesses said the lift, carrying around 15 persons, stopped between the ground floor and the first floor, reportedly due to overloading. The people inside immediately shouted for help and alerted relatives over their mobile phone.

Hospital authorities called in an electrician as well as the lift engineer, but they could not do much as they lacked proper equipment. Afzalgunj Police and Fire and Emergency Services Department personnel who arrived, broke open the iron grill of the lift and brought its occupants down with the help of a ladder.

Luckily, the lift had an iron grill otherwise we would have had to supply oxygen through a pipe inside the lift, said Gowliguda fire officer A. Srinivasa Rao.

The problem occurred as it was an old lift. Those rescued did not suffer any injuries, hospital officials said.

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MOSES LAKE - Moses Lake Senior Center officials got a couple of improvement projects knocked off their "to-do" list thanks to a group of Lowe's Home Improvement volunteers.

Senior Center General Manager Carry Liles said a handful of Lowe's employees and their families spent a couple of days this month working on various projects around the center.

They installed a new roll-up kitchen window in the senior center's meeting room, an electric door on one of the building's entrances and a second door just inside the building, she said. The projects were all tasks Liles had been wanting to get done, but couldn't because of a lack of funding.

Liles said she saw the chance to get one of the projects taken care of when Lowe's approached her earlier this year and asked if there was anything they needed done around the center.

"We told them there were three projects we had on our list, and to pick one," she said. "We said they were all important projects so whichever one they could do would be very much appreciated."

However, much to Liles' surprise, Lowe's decided to take care of all three projects.

"They did it all, we thought they were going to do one project, but they did it all," she said.

Liles said the center can better accommodate their patrons now that the projects are complete.

The new roll-up window benefits those who use the center's Birch Room, she said. Various groups hold lunch meetings in that room and it's also where visitors play Bingo and do other activities. Before the roll-up window, people had to get up and walk back to the main dining area to get their food or drinks.

"It's an inconvenience and it's not easy for people who use walkers or are in wheelchairs," she said.

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New locker rooms and restrooms will be built at the Corona del Mar High School pool, just one of many back-burner projects benefiting from extra city funding recently made available.

The $338,000 contribution to the Newport-Mesa Unified School District, requested by City Manager Dave Kiff, draws from higher-than-expected revenues in Newport Beach this fiscal year, coupled with last year's budget surplus.

The City Council on Tuesday appropriated more than $14 million to help pay for a wide array of improvements throughout the city, such as the locker rooms.

Most of the money $12 million came from a revenue surplus in the general fund in fiscal year 2012-13.

Another $1.2 million came from other funds like the IT strategic, lifeguard headquarters and tidelands funds, according to a staff report.

Of the $2.82 million in increased revenue estimates, the city appropriated $1.1 million. The money came from increased property tax estimates, plus more sales and hotel bed taxes from an improved economy.

The funding, which had not yet been given a specific budgetary use, will contribute to a wide array of needs, including a general liability fund, retiree health insurance and city improvement projects.

Municipal projects that will benefit include expansion of the LED streetlight conversion, Ocean Boulevard pavement replacement and concrete alley replacement in Newport Heights. Reforestation efforts and park re-landscaping will also get extra support.

The Fire Department will receive funding for paramedic emergency services, lifeguard dispatch equipment and facilities maintenance.

"The council has made it clear to me that they want to see more and more money going back into the community, so that's what I'm proposing to do with almost all of the surplus and the increased revenue," Kiff wrote in an email last week.

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Five stories that have North Texas talking: A big weekend for a Dallas-themed movie; Greg Abbott's personal connection to the Texas gay marriage case; Allen ISD is closing its palatial stadium due to cracks; and more.

How will Dallas Buyers Club do at the Oscars on Sunday? The film has earned six Oscar nods, including a nomination for best film. Matthew McConaughey is up for a nomination for actor in a leading role, while Jared Leto is in the running for actor in a supporting role. The film also earned nominations for film editing, original screenplay and makeup and hairstyling. The film portrays a Dallas electrician and hustler, Ron Woodroof, an HIV positive man in the 1980s who helps AIDS patients get the medication they need. Dallas Buyers Club was a big winner at the Golden Globes. McConaughey plays Woodroof, who decides to fight the death sentence the disease promised to those who contracted it in the 1980s. McConaughey dropped about 40 pounds for the role. The public radio show The Takeaway explored the movie this week in its Real People/Best Pictures series the show interviewed William Waybournwas the president of the Dallas Gay Alliance in the 1980s. Woodroof was a volunteer there, and also received services through the center's clinic. Waybourn discussed Woodroof and the movie. On Thursday, KERAs Think discussed all things Oscar. NPR recently reported on the process of making the movie it was a long, complicated process. Last fall, NPR reported on Woodroofs days in Dallas.

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NACOGDOCHES, TX (KTRE) -

Incumbent Charles Thomson, an electrician-business owner known as, 'Kilowatt', says he's learned a lot during the past four years about county government.

"I've learned some pretty hard lessons.it's always hear both sides of the sides of the story. Don't jump to any conclusions. That's one of the main ones," shared Thomson. "I learned exactly how things work and you think you may know, but you really don't until you're sitting in that chair."

Thomson says much of being a county commissioner is not in court or in an office. Today he's checking in on the county's on going tree removal program. His pet project is the development of the Nacogdoches technical training center.

"A plant manager here in Nacogdoches said, 'I would hire 50 more people right now and put on another shift, but they can't find skilled labor.' We need the school to keep our children here in the area," said Thomson.

And what does Thomson believe separates him from the other candidate? "Commitment and experience."

That's something Jerry Stone says he's shown throughout his 40 years in public service, primarily in police work.

"I've worked just about everything you can work in law enforcement. And I've always had a desire to run for public office because I love serving people. And I wanted to continue doing that but I don't really want to carry a gun anymore," said Stone.

Based on Stone's background, the hospital security officer is a strong advocate for law enforcement. Yet, another issue has caught his attention.

"I feel like that the civic center and the expo center is not being used to its fullest potential. I get concerned about the commissioners running the expo and the civic center when they have a person out there very capable of doing so," said Stone.

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PATERSON - As the trial of Northvale Mayor Paul Bazela and Anthony Ardis enters its second week in state Superior Court, attorneys for Bazela and his co-defendant found themselves dueling with one another as much as the prosecution.

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Northvale Mayor Paul Bazela at state Superior Court in Paterson on Feb. 19. The mayor is charged with official misconduct for allegedly using company workers and resources to perform odd jobs for Anthony Ardis's family and friends.

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Paterson resident Anthony Ardis, a former supervisor with the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission, in state Superior Court on Feb. 19.

The two allegedly used carpenters and electricians of the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission for personal projects at Ardis' mother's and girlfriend's homes while both were employed by the commission between January 2007 and December 2009. At the time, Bazela served as foreman of the carpentry shop, while Ardis was second in command of the agency as well as its ethics violations officer.

Bazela faces two counts each of second-degree conspiracy, second-degree official misconduct, second-degree pattern of official misconduct, and third-degree theft by unlawful taking or disposition. If convicted, he will have to resign as mayor of Northvale.

Bazela's defense strategy focused on establishing him as following Ardis' orders.

In his opening statement, Bazela's attorney, Peter Willis, alleged that Ardis "ordered, told, commanded" Bazela to perform the work because he was "too cheap."

Gregory Aprile, representing Ardis, has meanwhile focused his defense strategy on two fronts: alleging that Bazela, not Ardis, was the direct individual who gave the orders to the carpenters and electrician who allegedly did the work; and undermining the credibility of the witnesses by pointing out vagueness or contradictions in their previous testimony to the attorney general, the Grand Jury, and in interviews with Wayne Forest, executive director of the sewerage commission.

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Andreiy and his comrades keep watch for buses packed with "tituskhi" - the young criminals hired by the old regime to harass protesters. "If we see a suspicious vehicle, we take the registration number and contact the revolutionaries in the centre of Kiev and ask them to stop it. If they call us and tell us to stop a car, then we do," he said.

Andreiy also enforces good behaviour at a nearby junction, although elsewhere in Kiev a few traffic police have reappeared. "If somebody crosses a red light, we say 'please don't do that'. We can't make them pay anything, but we just warn them," he said.

Whether all the revolutionaries are so restrained is open to question. But Ukraine's police were so notorious for taking bribes that few miss their absence.

The revolutionaries, meanwhile, have shown their ability to enforce order.

The area of central Kiev which they have controlled for months is packed with expensive shops, including branches of Gucci and Louis Vuitton. These businesses have closed their doors, but their windows are unbroken and there is no visible sign of looting.

Anna Grygorenko, who serves at a jewellery counter in Komod shopping centre, had no qualms about placing a glittering array of earrings and necklaces on display. "We had the revolution because there was no law and people wanted to control the police. There was no trust in the police - people were afraid of them," she said.

"So it's the opposite: if we don't have police and people try to control things themselves, it makes me feel safer."

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Ukraine: revolutionaries take the place of police on Kiev's streets