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NEW YORK, Nov. 5, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- To encourage school attendance among New York City Public School students, Old Navy - with the help of Deputy Mayor Dennis Walcott, Chancellor Joel I.
New York's deputy mayor said he tussled with a mugger who had snatched a woman's BlackBerry cell phone. Deputy Mayor Ed Skyler, 35, said he heard a woman shout Tuesday that a mugger had stolen her mobile phone and he gave chase until the teen perpetrator slipped on some ice on 48th Street and we sort of tussled on the ground for a little bit, the New York Post reported Thursday. Skyler said he tried to hold the thief, but the teen slipped away and fled with a group of friends.
The deputy mayor of Wimborne, England, said he has ended the town's 400-year-old tradition of firing muskets into the air to celebrate the coming of Christmas. Deputy Mayor John Burden said he made the decision to bar the town's reenactment group, known as the Militia, from firing their muskets into the air to celebrate the lighting of the town Christmas tree because the noise could frighten children, The Daily Telegraph reported Friday. Burden, 62, said Mayor Robin Cook, who is on vacation, gave him permission to make a decision on the musket issue. I cannot speak for the mayor on what he would do, but before he went away he told me the decision on whether to have muskets was up to me, the deputy mayor said.
Text of report by Kazakh newspaper Vremya website on 23 January Residents of Almaty are freezing. It is minus 30 degrees centigrade outdoors, and heating radiators are almost cold.