Annan arrival, Annan in meeting
1. Wide exterior of UNECA (United Nations Economic Commission for Africa) with flags outside
2. Mid UNECA logo on wall
3. Wide of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's car arriving and Annan stepping out
4. Mid of Annan standing outside UNECA
5. Various of Annan walking inside UNECA towards Conference Room
7. Wide of Annan entering conference room with Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi
8. Wide of Annan walking to seat in conference room
9. Wide of audience clapping in conference room
10. Mid of audience clapping
STORYLINE:
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan convened a meeting of key African, Arab and European leaders in Ethiopia on Thursday to try to break the deadlock over worsening violence in Sudan's Darfur region.
In recent days, pro-government militia known as janjaweed have stepped up attacks on villages in Darfur, killing dozens of people, international observers said on Wednesday.
Annan wants UN peacekeepers to replace a beleaguered African force in Darfur in an attempt to
end the killings there before he leaves office on January 1 2007.
Sudan has so far blocked a UN contingent, and a compromise solution may be to set up a
joint AU-UN peacekeeping force.
The meeting drew senior officials from the African Union, the Arab League, the European Union, Sudan, the United States, China, Russia, Egypt, France and a half-dozen African countries to the
African Union headquarters in Ethiopia
The summit members will set up three committees to consider ways to strengthen peacekeeping,
enforce a faltering cease-fire and reinvigorate peace talks.
After years of low-level clashes over water and land in the vast, arid Darfur region, rebels from ethnic African tribes took up arms against Sudan's Arab-dominated central government in 2003.
Khartoum is accused of unleashing the janjaweed, who are blamed for many of the atrocities in a conflict that has killed some 200,000 people and chased 2.5 million from their homes.
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WRAP Security ahead of holocaust museum opening, Annan bite
1. Police and police cars in the street
2. Policeman stopping car in the street
3. Policeman checking driver identity card
4. Various of armed soldiers on the streets
5. Israeli border police soldiers checking their weapons
6. Police checking roadblock
7. Close up of UN and Israeli flags
8. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's car convoy arriving at Israeli Foreign Ministry building
9. Annan arriving
10. Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom greeting Annan
11. Shalom and Annan handshake and photo opportunity
12. Shalom and Annan go inside
13. Annan and Shalom coming out of meeting
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Kofi Annan, United Nations Secretary-General:
Yesterday I had the chance to discuss this with president Abu Mazen (Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas), who is looking forward to the meeting today and hopes that they will be able to come to an understanding about a ceasefire and non-use of violence. I think this should obviously, in the scheme of things, be seen as a fair step towards eventual stoppage of that kind of activity. Particularly if we are aiming for peace, a peace that leads to two states living side-by-side in peace and security.
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Silvan Shalom, Israeli Foreign Minister:
It is very encouraging to see the Secretary-General (Annan) here in Jerusalem especially for attending the opening of the Holocaust museum of Yad Vashem in Israel.
17. Annan and Shalom walking towards their cars
STORYLINE:
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan discussed the ongoing peace process between the Israelis and the Palestinians at a meeting with Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom on Tuesday.
Annan was in Jeruslaem to attend the inauguration ceremony of the new Holocaust museum, Yad Vashem.
Ahead of Tuesday evening's opening ceremony, additional Israeli security forces were seen on the streets of Jerusalem, checking drivers and their vehicles.
Roadblocks were erected around the city preventing public access to buildings in which the dozens of world leaders expected at the opening are staying.
Officials fear right wing activists may choose this evening's high profile occasion to stage protests against Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's recently announced disengagement plan.
The 56 (m) million US dollar museum - which uses a Jewish perspective to tell the story of the Nazi murder of six (m) million Jews - took 10 years to build.
Its creators said that Yad Vashem's old museum, opened in 1973 and a quarter the size of the new one, was unable to respond to growing interest in the Holocaust.
A number of Holocaust museums, far more elaborate than Yad Vashem, have been built in recent years and many Israelis long felt their memorial was in need of a facelift.
The work was funded mostly by private donors, but also by the Israeli government and the Conference of Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
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UK: LONDON: UN CHIEF KOFI ANNAN MEETS ROBIN COOK
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U-N Secretary General Kofi Annan stopped off in London on his tour of the Security Council capitals on Friday.
There he met up with British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook and discussed the progress in the weapons inspection programme in Iraq.
Mr Annan also paid a visit to a new exhibition dedicated to depicting the human cost of landmines which honours Princess Diana's contribution to the campaign against them.
Kofi Annan's meeting with British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook was overshadowed by the start of the Asia Europe 2 meeting which had begun around the corner on the same morning.
Mr. Annan began by thanking Britain for its role in the recent Iraqi crisis.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
I am very grateful for the support that I have received from Britain throughout. And I was also grateful for his firmness and his stand during the Iraqi crisis which helped make the agreement with President Saddam Hussein possible. And I would also want to thank Prime Minister Blair and the British Government for their leadership in the economic and social field by increasing their contribution for economic assistance which the Prime Minister confirmed to me yesterday.
SUPER CAPTION: Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations
But reporters quickly moved onto the Europe Asia 2 meeting and Annan's attempts to mediate over East Timor.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
I met the Indonesian Vice-President this morning at seven thirty which is really not perhaps the best hour, but at least in my country time speaks, so if you start with something like that in the morning that means it's a very important topic. So we started at seven thirty, had a little over an hour, and I'll be talking to the Portuguese Prime Minister this afternoon at five thirty, on the same issue, and I would hope that we'll be able to move the process forward as a result of these talks. We will also these high level talks in New York next month, and then continue the process.
Q. Will the Portuguese Prime Minister and the Vice President of Indonesia meet today?
A. I had originally hoped that it would be possible for us to have a tripartite meeting but that is not going to be possible, for various reasons. And I think they met last night, very briefly at the Prime Minister's dinner handshake. But we are not going to be able to sit across the table this time, but at least we are talking and talking to both of them, and we are moving the process forward.
SUPER CAPTION: Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations
Mr Annan's next visit was to the Imperial war Museum where a new exhibition depicting the human cost of landmines has just begun.
Princess Diana's contribution to the campaign against landmines is being honoured at the special exhibition.
Mr Annan used his visit to call on the international community to push ahead with a global ban on anti-personnel mines.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
This should be a reminder to all of us of what should not happen. We've seen man's inhumanity to man. We've said time and time again this should not happen. After World War II we said never again and I have maintained that the holocaust, the Jewish experience is an experience of humanity, of man's inhumanity to man, and yet since then we have repeatedly gone through this whether it was in Cambodia, Rwanda, or elsewhere we keep killing each other.
SUPER CAPTION: Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations
Mr Annan will meet the Portuguese Prime Minister later on Friday to further discuss the contentious issue of East Timor.
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Annan Riding of the Marches 2010
HUNDREDS of supporters followed Cornet Robert Hollis, Cornet's Lass Rachael Armstrong and Standard Bearer Karen Martin around the historic Royal Burgh of Annan landward boundaries in Dumfries and Galloway during the Riding of the Marches in July.
With the words 'safe oot, safe in' ringing in their ears, a cavalcade of almost 100 riders followed the principals to their first stop at Landheads.
This saw visitors from around the world enjoy the traditional 'Hole in the Hedge' ceremony and snuff-taking.
The riders then mounted their steeds again as the official party made their way to Williamwood for a quick refreshment stop, guests of Michael and Shirley Clarke, and then re-grouped to proceed across country to Chapelcross, where senior officials at the near-by nuclear site, operated by Energy Solutions, were hosts.
Following a well-earned rest they set off for an exhilarating gallop along the Solway Firth sands before their final trek took them to the natural arena of riverside Everholm park for 'the chases' - a series of horse races.
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Sheraton Hotel, Davos, Switzerland - 23 January 2004
1. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan comes down the stairs of Sheraton Hotel in Davos, Switzerland
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General:
I have had very good discussions with several of the leaders here on Iraq and developments in the region and we will make our decision fairly shortly in the next few days or so.
3. Kofi Annan leaving the hotel
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Davos, Switzerland - 23 January 2004
4. Wide shot of the Davos Economic Forum podium with King Abdullah arriving
5. Side shot people clapping
6. SOUNDBITE (English) King Abdullah of Jordan:
On Iraq, I hope tomorrow is better than today. There is an ambitious programme obviously in 2004 to give Iraqis more of a role in what they have to say. It is the responsibility of all of the international community to be with the Iraqis, to help them make that transition. I know that the pictures on television are pretty dismal, but they are people, they have a lot of hope in their future and they will make it. Will they make it in a year or will they make it in ten - I think a lot of that comes back to the international community and what we can do to support them get back on their feet as soon as possible. I am hopeful, I believe they will be able to get there but we need the help of everyone for them to be able to do that.
7. King Abdullah and Claus Schwab
8. Wide shot of the forum
9 SOUNDBITE (English) Adnan Pachachi, President of the Iraqi Governing Council:
I said because of the shortness of time it will be difficult to hold elections that are credible and fair but anyway many people in Iraq, that segment of Iraqi opinion believes there should be a determined effort to see if elections are feasible. There are people who believe they are. Others believe the term does not permit such fair elections. We hope this matter can be resolved when the team of the United Stations presents its report sometime next month.
10. Medium shot Pachachi
11. Side shot of people listening
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Adnan Pachachi, President of the Iraqi Governing Council:
Let us not forget that until our army is in, has the sufficient numbers and equipment and the ability to protect Iraq against external threat. We will need either coalition forces or multi-national forces under some sort of United Nations umbrella.
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Sheraton Hotel, Davos, Switzerland - 23 January 2004
16. Secretary General of Arab League arriving
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Amr Moussa, Secretary General of the Arab League:
We want to cooperate with the United Nations if anything the UN should be brought into the principal work in Iraq.
18. Moussa leaving
STORYLINE:
The future of Iraq was a hot topic of discussion on the third day of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Friday.
King Abdullah of Jordan made a special address, and was questioned by WEF founder Claus Schwab on Iraq.
As Iraq's neighbour, Jordan has played a major role in trying to maintain stability and security in the region.
Addressing the audience, King Abdullah expressed his belief that Iraq does have a positive future but also needs the support of the international community.
While the UN has been apprehensive to re-establish itself in Iraq after the terrorist attack on the UN Headquarters in Baghdad last year, both Adnan Padchachi of the Iraqi Governing Council and Amr Moussa of the Arab League told reporters in Davos they thought the UN could and should play a key role in Iraq's security and administration.
Earlier on Friday, US Attorney General John Ashcroft asked the entirety of the world community to join the United States in trying to establish what he called freedom in Iraq, and eliminate terrorism.
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Bush and Annan announce Aids initiative
1. Wide-shot of press conference
2. Cutaway of press
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) George W. Bush, U-S President
For our part today, I am committing the United States of America to support a new worldwide fund with a founding contribution of 200 (M) millions dollars. This is in addition to the (B) billions we spend on research and the 760 (M) million we are spending this year to help the international effort to fight Aids.
4. Cutaway
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) George W. Bush, U-S President
Addressing a plague of this magnitude requires scientific accountability to ensure results and finally we understand the importance of innovation in creating life saving medicines that combat diseases. That's why we believe the fund must respect international property rights as an incentive in research and development.
6. Cutaway
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General
As we declare global war on Aids we will need a war chest to fight it. We need to mobilise an additional seven to 10 (M) million dollars a year to fight this disease worldwide.
8. Cutaway
9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigerian President
The joint message of the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Health was brought to us a message of hope from the United States of America. Today, Mr. President you have begun to 'concretise' that hope for Africa and for millions of Africans infected and affected by HIV and AIDS.
10. Wide-shot of Bush, Annan and Obasanjo
STORYLINE:
President George Bush on Friday announced a grant of 200 (m) million US dollars to help fight infectious diseases in poor countries.
President Bush, flanked by Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo and UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in the rose Garden outside the White House, pledged to fight Aids around the world.
Both Obasanjo and Annan thanked Bush, but pointed out they still remained far from their goal.
Of the 36 (M) million people around the world infected with HIV, roughly 26 (M) million live in Africa, and of the 23 (M) million people killed by it worldwide, 17 (M) million were sub-Saharan Africans.
The continent is expected to get a large share of the funds.
It was Annan's second meeting in Washington this week.
He is trying to gain support for both the international fund and an action plan to combat Aids and other infectious diseases, which is expected to be adopted at a special session of the UN General Assembly on June 25-27.
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Under the Leadership of Alistair Beckett Annan Town Band March on to Kirkcudbright harbour Square.
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ISRAEL: JERUSALEM: UN CHIEF KOFI ANNAN VISITS THE KNESSET
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U-N Secretary-General Kofi Annan told Israel on Wednesday that the majority of United Nations members held the organisation responsible for a crisis in peacemaking with the Palestinians.
But during his visit to the Israeli parliament - the Knesset - the Speaker of the House, Dan Tichon, criticised the U-N for being biased against Israel.
His remarks triggered a shouting match among legislators and left Annan, sitting in the visitor's gallery, looking bewildered.
Kofi Annan, the Secretary General of the United Nations, visited the Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem on Wednesday.
Still basking in the glow of his success in Iraq, Annan is looking for a part in Arab-Israeli peacemaking, offering to play a role in an Israeli troop withdrawal from Lebanon.
He has given his approval to a proposed Israeli pullback in Lebanon, although he has also urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to put too much pressure on Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
But he has already told the Israelis he is not a magician, and his influence in Middle East issues is limited.
After visiting the Holocaust museum, Annan paid his respects to U-N soldiers who have lost their lives in the Middle East, laying a wreath at a memorial in the grounds of the U-N headquarters.
Then it was on to the Israeli parliament - the Knesset - where the Speaker of the House, Dan Tichon, criticised the U-N for being biased against Israel.
His remarks triggered a shouting match among legislators.
Annan, sitting in the visitor's gallery, looked bewildered and turned to a translator for explanation.
SOUNDBITE: (Hebrew)
Israel is a veteran member of the U-N, yet our country has not always received warm acceptance within that organisation. In fact, over the years, Israel has often come under attack, and the U-N has passed resolutions of censure against Israel which were not impartial. A strategy which intends to isolate Israel and undermine the legitimacy of our state will not contribute to furthering the peace process.
SUPER CAPTION: Dan Tichon, Speaker of the House
Annan and his wife, Nane, walked out after about 10 minutes.
Members of the U-N delegation said Annan had not left in a huff, but was trying to stick to a tight timetable.
He later urged the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to commit itself to the Oslo interim peace accords and to work for a comprehensive settlement based
on the principle of land for peace.
SOUNDBITE:(English)
Here is what the great majority of member states of the United Nations said. They regard Israel as having been responsible directly or indirectly of provocative acts that undermine goodwill and spark hostilities. In their view Israel has not abided by security council resolutions. They point out that you have been slow to fulfil your obligations under the Oslo agreement, and that you have made your implementation conditional in the way that the Oslo accords did not intend.
SUPER CAPTION: Kofi Annan, U-N Secretary General
SOUNDBITE:(English)
I think when it comes to the peace process, all parties have to make an effort, and it takes two to tango. Israel cannot do it alone.
SUPER CAPTION: Kofi Annan, U-N Secretary General
Annan is currently on a Middle East tour that includes meetings with Egyptian, Lebanese, Syrian and Palestinian officials.
SOUNDBITE:(English)
He also urged everybody to be more positive, not to lose hope, and to give this peace process a chance to succeed given the fact that the UN itself also and the Secretary General himself feels that he can inject some hope and credibility in the process.
SUPER CAPTION: Hanan Ashwari, Palestinian cabinet minister
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan holds talks on Cyprus, Iraq
1. Mid shot reporters
2. Wide shot car arriving at exterior of Justice and Development party headquarters carrying UN Secretary General Kofi Annan
3. Annan walks into building ruling party headquarters
4. Mid shot Annan
5. Various Annan at briefing with Recep Tayyip Erdogan, leader of the governing Justice and Development Party
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kofi Annan, UN General Secretary:
On Iraq, we both share the view that Iraq must disarm and must honour its obligations to the security council, and do it urgently and speedily. We also are agreed that the security council should work together and should find a way forward. And we believe that even at this stage war is not inevitable.
7. Cutaway reporters
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kofi Annan, UN General Secretary:
We have a unique window of opportunity to try and get a united Cyprus into the European Union and that is why I am here, despite the urgent crisis of Iraq that the United Nations is dealing with right now.
9. Annan shaking hands with Recep Tayyip Erdogan, leader of the governing Justice and Development Party
10. Annan walking into meeting with Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer
11. Annan shaking hands with Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer
12. Close up Sezer
13. Wide shot meeting
14. Close up Annan
15. Mid shot meeting
STORYLINE:
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Monday urged Iraq to disarm quickly and speedily to avoid a conflict in the region.
Speaking in Ankara, Annan was on the first leg of a trip to Turkey, Greece and Cyprus to press the countries to agree on a reunification plan for Cyprus before Friday, so that separate referendums can be held before the island signs a European Union accession agreement on April 16.
But the secretary-general's visit has been overshadowed by negotiations between Turkey and the United States on the deployment of US troops ahead of a possible war in Iraq.
Following a meeting with Recep Tayyip Erdogan, leader of the governing Justice and Development Party - who is largely considered the power behind the Turkish government, Annan said both he and Erdogan believed war was not inevitable.
The UN Secretary General also said that a unique window of opportunity existed to ensure a united Cyprus enters the European Union, despite the Iraq crisis.
The UN plan envisages Cyprus' reunification as two separate Greek and Turkish Cypriot states linked through a weak central government.
Cyprus has been accepted as a new member of the EU in 2004, but Turkish Cypriots will be left out unless the UN settlement plan succeeds.
Annan also held talks with Turkey's president Ahmet Necdet Sezer and was scheduled to meet with Prime Minister Abdullah Gul later on Monday.
He will then hold talks with high ranking politicians in the Greek capital of Athens on Tuesday before traveling to Cyprus Wednesday.
Cyprus has been divided into a Greek Cypriot south and a Turkish-held north since a 1974 Turkish invasion sparked by a short-lived coup by supporters of union with Greece.
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ANNAN TOWN V DUMFRIES ATHLETIC (2ND HALF)(TURNING POINT CUP RD1)
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Annan Town Band under the Leadership Of Alistair Beckett play a medley of tunes in Kirkcudbright Harbour Square.
James Craig Annan - Scottish Master Photogravure Printer
James Craig Annan (8 March 1864 – 5 June 1946) was a pioneering Scottish-born photographer and Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society.
JAMES CRAIG ANNAN was a master photogravure printer and a leading pictorialist photographer around the turn of the twentieth century. He produced most of his own work as well as that of others in the photogravure process, which he learned from its inventor, Karl Klíc.
Annan was the son of photographer Thomas Annan, known for his early documentation of the slums of Glasgow. He joined his father's business at a young age and began assisting in studio portraiture and photographic reproductions of artwork. In 1883, he and his father traveled to Vienna to study with Klíc, T. & R. Annan and Sons of Glasgow soon became Britain's foremost gravure printing establishments.
Annan became popular as a professional portrait photographer but also produced personal work, primarily portraits and genre scenes. In 1894 he was elected to The Linked Ring, England's most prestigious group of creative photographers. A few years later he published a limited-edition portfolio of his work, Venice and Lombardy: A Series of Original Photogravues. He exhibited widely, at such venues as the London salon, the 1901 Glasgow international Exhibition, Alfred Stieglitz's Photo-Secession Galleries, the Paris salon and the 1910 International Exhibition of Pictorial Photography at the Albright Art Gallery in Buffalo. In 1900, Annan was given a one-person retrospective at the Royal Photographic Society, which subsequently awarded him an honorary fellowship, its highest membership level.
Unlike other photographers, Annan supplied his own photogravures for Camera Notes (1898-1903), the top photographic periodical in the United States at the time. Shortly thereafter, when Stieglitz began publishing the even more sumptuous journal Camera Work, Annan continued to contribute his own work plus gravures by other British photographers such as George Davision. Stieglitz included 25 of Annan's photogravures in the magazine and devoted the entire January 1914 (No. 45) issue to him.
Annan rediscovered the work of other photographers and oversaw the production of intaglio prints by contemporary artists. He printed from the negatives of Hill and Adamson, for instance, creating renewed interest in their work. At T. & R. Annan he supervised the printing of etchings and engravings by such artists as Muirhead Bone and William Strang. Annan and Alfred Stieglitz were exact contemporaries with a shared commitment to high-quality gravure printing and photography as a fine art. For over 20 years they corresponded about matters both personal and professional.
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Places to see in ( Girvan - UK )
Places to see in ( Girvan - UK )
Girvan is a burgh in Carrick, South Ayrshire, Scotland. Girvan is stituated on the east coast of the Firth of Clyde, with a population of about 6,700. It lies 21 miles (34 km) south of Ayr, and 29 miles (47 km) north of Stranraer, the main ferry port from Scotland to Northern Ireland.
Girvan was originally a fishing port. In 1668, it became a municipal burgh incorporated by charter. The opening of the railways, initially with the Maybole and Girvan Railway at the end of the 1850s, encouraged the development of Girvan as a seaside resort with beaches and cliffs. Holidaying here from 1855 to 1941 were Robert and Elizabeth Gray and their children; particularly Alice and Edith Gray. The family, led principally by Elizabeth and Alice, created scientifically organised collections of fossils for several museums including the Natural History Museum.
The town is now served by Girvan railway station. Just north of the town is a William Grant & Sons distillery which opened in 1964. There is a Nestlé factory that manufactures chocolate that is shipped down to York and used in Kit-Kat and Yorkie bars.
The McKechnie Institute was endowed by a local businessman and opened in 1889. The Girvan Folk Music Festival takes place on the first weekend of May each year. Girvan also has a folk music club. The Lowland Gathering takes place on the first Sunday of June each year in the Victory Park in the centre of the town. The annual Festival of Light takes place in October with a six-week lantern project resulting in the river of light lantern procession and shorefront performance. The autumn lantern project is a celebration of the lanternmakers and the people of Carrick.
Culzean Castle is about 8 miles (13 km) north of the town, and the volcanic island of Ailsa Craig is visible about 10 miles (16 km) offshore. Turnberry golf course and hotel are located 5 miles (8 km) north of Girvan. The coastline south of Girvan is famous for its geology, and also for Sawney Bean's Cave, where the legendary murderer and cannibal Sawney Bean supposedly lived until his arrest and execution in Edinburgh.
Most of the streets in the south east of Girvan are named after trees, examples are Maple Drive, Elder Avenue, Pine Quadrant, etc. Some flats are being refurbished due to damp rooms, poor insulation and mouldy windows (Which are still wooden). Girvan has a Roman Catholic church, Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, built around 1863. The Church is in Harbour Lane, situated between Louisa Drive and Henrietta Street, close to the junction with Ailsa Street West.
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Little Things, Big Memories - Dumfries & Galloway’s History & Heritage
Awed by archaeology? Captivated by the Great War? Enthralled by the cosmos? Thrilled by ancient castles? There are plenty of ‘wow’ moments to experience in Dumfries & Galloway, a land of wonder and intrigue. Located in south west Scotland, this region is rich when it comes to history, heritage and culture.
Visit museums in the area to uncover the unique story of the region and its people, including the fascinating history of munitions girls’ incredible war-time efforts. Or behold a majestic castle, as grand on the inside as it is on the outside, where the family history of nobles can be traced back centuries.
You could explore an astrological art land which, in the word of the artist, is worthy of the ancients, or step inside a reconstructed Iron Age roundhouse and smell the burning wood on the hearth. For those who enjoy the great outdoors, don’t miss the chance to experience Dumfries & Galloway’s natural heritage, be it on a stroll along the Solway coast or as you wander through a dense forest.
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7 Facts about Akrotiri and Dhekelia
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1. Akrotiri and Dhekelia are two tiny administered areas on Cyprus, in the Mediterranean. When Turkey joined the Central Powers in World War I, Britain took full control of the island. Cypriots joined with Britain in return for a promise that following the war they would be allowed to unify with Greece. Britain failed to deliver on this promise. Eventually the Cypriots achieved independence over their island, with the compromise that Britain would be allowed to keep military bases on their own sovereign land on the island. This allowed Britain to retain their control over the Suez Canal and a military presence in the eastern Mediterranean, while defusing the struggle with separatists.
2. Akrotiri and Dhekelia are entirely military bases, with no real civil governments. They are administered by the British as military bases, and the tenets which outline their development reflect this. The territory is composed of two Base Areas. One is Akrotiri, or the Western Sovereign Base Area. The other area is Dhekelia Cantonment, or the Eastern Sovereign Base Area .
3. In 1974, following a military coup by the Cypriot National Guard attempting to achieve union with Greece, Turkey invaded the north of Cyprus, leading to the establishment of the internationally unrecognised Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. Greek Cypriots fleeing from the Turkish forces were permitted to travel through the Dhekelia Sovereign Base Area and were given humanitarian aid. The Turkish advance halted when it reached the edge of the Dhekelia Sovereign Base Area to avoid military conflict with the United Kingdom.
4. The United Kingdom has shown no intention of ceding the Base Areas in their entirety to Cypriot control, although it has offered to cede 117 square kilometres (45 sq mi) of farmland as part of the rejected Annan Plan for Cyprus. As of 2010, around 3,000 troops of British Forces Cyprus are based at Akrotiri and Dhekelia.
5. Episkopi Cantonment is the capital of Akrotiri and Dhekelia, a British Overseas Territory on the island of Cyprus, administered as a base. It is located in the middle of the Western Sovereign Base Area, one of the two areas which comprise the territory. Although it is not the largest of the British military bases on the island, it is however home to both the civilian and military administration headquarters of the Sovereign Base Areas. Episkopi is the current command centre of British Forces Cyprus.
6. The SBAs were retained in 1960 to keep military bases in areas under British sovereignty, along with the rights retained to use other sites in what became the territory of the Republic.
7. There are no economic statistics gathered for Akrotiri and Dhekelia. The main economic activities are the provision of services to the military, as well as limited agriculture. When the territory under the effective control of the Republic of Cyprus switched currencies from the Cypriot pound to the euro on 1 January 2008, Akrotiri and Dhekelia followed suit making the Sovereign Base Areas the only territory under British sovereignty to officially use the euro.
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WRAP Security, preps, Annan, regional leaders
(6 Jan 2005)
1. Motorcade arriving at Jakarta Convention Centre
2. United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan arriving
3. US Secretary of State Colin Powell arriving
4. Philippines President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo walking into conference room
5. Wide shot of flags outside the Jakarta Convention Centre
6. Pan of summit delegates during moment of silence for victims of earthquake and tsunami
7. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan during moment of silence
8. US Secretary of State Colin Powell during moment of silence
9. Flags
10. Wide shot of conference
11. Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono speaking
12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesian President:
Even as we gather here today, 12 days after the disaster, the death toll around the region keeps rising. We do not yet have a name for the quake and tsunami that hit our regions on the 26th of December, 2004, but we know that it''s the most destructive natural disaster in living memory.
13. Wide shot conference
14. Close-up British Foreign Minister Jack Straw
15. Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong speaking
16. Wide shot of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan
17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kofi Annan, United Nations Secretary General: +++AUDIO QUALITY AS INCOMING+++
Today I''m launching an appeal for the immediate international relief effort which the United Nations has undertaken in Indonesia, the Maldives, Sri Lanka, the Seychelles and Somalia. This initial appeal is in addition to the the 59 million dollars which our partners in the Red Cross and the Red Crescent had asked for. In the six-month period covered by this appeal we will need 977 million dollars to cover the humanitarian emergency needs of an estimated five million people.
18. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, pan to other ASEAN leaders as they applaud
19. Wide shot of leaders emerging from summit
20. Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi shaking hands with UN Secretary General Kofi Annan during bilateral meeting
21. Wide shot of Koizumi and Annan meeting, with other delegates in room
22. Annan and Koizumi
23. Wide shot news conference of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan
24. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kofi Annan, Secretary General, United Nations:
I think for the moment the world has come together and we are working together. The spirit in the conference and the spirit in the room, and my discussions with the leaders who are here, leads me to believe that we are responding and there is solidarity and we''re going to really make a difference here.
25. Wide shot of European Union President Jean-Claude Juncker speaking to media
26. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jean-Claude Juncker, European Union President:
I will announce a general amount of European aid of two billion dollars today, and we will be deeply involved in the reconstruction and rehabilitation process. We do think that this is not only a matter for short term action, but that we have to be present in the region for the long term too.
27. Flags
STORYLINE:
Getting aid to the victims of the tsunami is a race against time, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Thursday in Jakarta at the start of an emergency summit to work out the best way to spend nearly four billion (b) US dollars that has been pledged worldwide.
Annan told leaders from around the world, gathered in the Indonesian capital for the meeting, that the death toll from the December 26 tragedy would likely exceed 150-thousand though the exact figure would never be known.
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the summit''s host and the leader of the hardest-hit country, described the calamity as the most destructive natural disaster in living memory.
Pledges of aid rushed in on the eve of Thursday''s conference.
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WRAP Donors conference, Blair, Rice, Annan, adds Karzai and demo
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1. Wide pan of interior venue conference on Afghanistan, delegates seated
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2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Tony Blair, UK Prime Minister
And therefore I think when we gather today as an international community in order to pledge our support for Afghanistan, we do so of course to help Afghanistan and to help its people, but we do so also because the struggle of the Afghan people to have democracy and stability is representative of the struggle worldwide to ensure people have the opportunity for democracy and freedom when that is what they choose to do.
3. Cutaway wide shot conference
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Condoleezza Rice, US Secretary of State
Who among us could have imagined what the people of Afghanistan would achieve in this short time? A new democratic constitution, an emerging free economy, a growing multi-ethnic army that is the pride of the Afghan people, successful presidential and parliamentary elections, in which millions of citizens, men and women, voted freely for the first time.
5. Wide shot panel zoom into UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan as Tony Blair introduces his speech
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General
Our optimism in necessarily tampered by the serious challenges ahead. The recent violence has served as a sad reminder of the fragile state of peace in the country. Afghanistan today remains an insecure environment - terrorism, extreme violence, the illicit narcotics industry and the corruption it nurtures threaten not only continued state building but also the fruits of the Bonn process.
7. Wide shot conference
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8. Prime Minister Tony Blair and Afghan President Hamid Karzai walking into room
9. Mid shot of Blair and Karzai signing
10. Mid shot of Blair and Karzai shaking hands and exchanging agreements
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11. Various shots of demonstrators outside the conference
STORYLINE:
Envoys from nearly 70 nations and international bodies gathered in London on Tuesday and vowed to keep up the flow of support to Afghanistan, which is still plagued by violence and poverty more than four years after the fall of the Taliban.
Speaking at the start of the two-day meeting, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said helping Afghanistan become a stable democracy was important because it is representative of the struggle worldwide to ensure people have the opportunity for democracy and freedom when that is what they choose to do.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the administration of President George W. Bush planned to ask Congress for 1.1(b) billion US dollars in aid for Afghanistan next year - a figure similar to aid for 2006.
She was upbeat regarding progress in the country though, saying who among us could have imagined what the people of Afghanistan would achieve in this short time?
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Afghan President Hamid Karzai also spoke at the meeting, which is expected to produce a five-year blueprint for the troubled central Asian nation's security, economic development and counter-narcotic efforts.
Annan said that optimism is necessarily tampered by the serious challenges ahead.
Billions of dollars (euros) of aid have brought new hospitals, clinics and roads to Afghanistan since the Taliban were toppled by a US-led coalition in 2001.
School enrolment has soared from 900-thousand to 5 (m) million and many of the new students are girls, who had been barred by the hardline Islamic regime from attending classes.
But most Afghans remain mired in poverty, and the country still has some of the highest mortality rates in the world.
Many have grown frustrated with the aid effort, complaining that much of the money flowing in from abroad has been wasted.
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