How To Use Dereliction In A Sentence
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Around 140 luxury homes are being built around the course as part of a deal to save one of Ireland's great stately homes from dereliction.
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The worst dereliction is tolerance of rave parties where illegal drugs are sold and used, and minors are sexually exploited.
Sound Politics: Seattle needs more police; and needs to use better sense in deploying the ones it already has
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Then the regional financial crisis hit and suddenly the air was full of accusations of bureaucratic ineptitude, corruption and outright dereliction of duty.
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If this dereliction is allowed to persist, it is predictable that more Americans will die, both on foreign battlefields and at home.
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Apologies should be taken automatically as acknowledgement of personal complicity in the crime or dereliction.
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His apparent instruction to passport control officers to wave through hordes of visitors unchecked was a grotesque dereliction of duty.
The Sun
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Why has nobody publicly paid the price for gross and blatant dereliction of duty?
The Sun
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+ But they were without God in the world; having cast off his fear, and the apprehension of his presence, and their accountableness, which often follow the dereliction of the divine institutions.
Sermons on Various Important Subjects
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Later, in a memorial service for the disaster's victims, Gustav sought to spread a pall of general bafflement over events, including the government's dereliction.
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He's charged with maltreating detainees, conspiracy to maltreat detainees, dereliction of duty and indecency.
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That right there is what they call dereliction of duty where I come from, Pardner. hoho
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He says infantry that didn't keep moving and attacking would be accused of cowardice or dereliction of duty.
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Its dereliction over the past two years had been a constant topic of conversation.
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Litter on our streets, anti-social behaviour, dereliction - we all know what is wrong with our town.
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Harvard Sociologist David Riesman suspects that a majority of Americans have blithely taken to committing supposedly minor derelictions as a matter of course.
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Couldn't you be accused of dereliction of duty?
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Property prices have collapsed and parts of the city are a scene of decay and dereliction.
Times, Sunday Times
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And the charges he faces right now include assault, maltreatment, indecent acts, dereliction of duty, and conspiracy.
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When it closed the canal was seen as a dirty, decaying relic of an industrial past, and it sank into decay and dereliction.
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Whatever the refurbishment cost the building cannot, must not, become another infamous centre of dereliction.
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He pleaded guilty to wilful dereliction of duty.
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Marchant builds up a factual record of dereliction in Stepney with the intention of conveying a sense of loss.
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He pleaded guilty to wilful dereliction of duty.
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He was reduced to ordinary soldier due to a serious dereliction of duty.
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D darkness of calamity dash of eccentricity dawning of recognition day of reckoning daylight of faith decay of authority declaration of indifference deeds of prowess defects of temper degree of hostility delicacy of thought delirium of wonder depth of despair dereliction of duty derogation of character despoiled of riches destitute of power desultoriness of detail [desultoriness = haphazard; random] device of secrecy devoid of merit devoutness of faith dexterity of phrase diapason of motives [diapason = full, rich, harmonious sound] dictates of conscience difference of opinion difficult of attainment dignity of thought dilapidations of time diminution of brutality disabilities of age display of prowess distinctness of vision distortion of symmetry diversity of aspect divinity of tradition domain of imagination drama of action dream of vengeance drop of comfort ductility of expression dull of comprehension duplicities of might dust of defeat
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He was a plenty rough campaigner, but it was his coming back again and again in a kind of rammish, head-butting way on the administration's derelictions that got him within winning distance of the election.
A Shockproof Electorate
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Anything less would be a dereliction of duty.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, the figures are still dwarfed by the huge scale of the problem of urban dereliction and blight in the area.
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That they could allow such a resource to be lost, and lost for ever, is far more than a dereliction of duty – even a banana republic would blush at the callousness of letting something so good and worthwhile go in the name of short-term cuts Fiona Millar, Education, 12 April.
Letters: School music coda
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This self-inculpation for events not involving the apologists' complicity personalizes and sentimentalizes an act of crime or dereliction.
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Apologies should be taken automatically as acknowledgement of personal complicity in the crime or dereliction.
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Twice is a dereliction of responsibility.
Times, Sunday Times
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The business park will help regenerate this area disadvantaged by years of industrial decay and dereliction.
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She was found guilty of dereliction of duty and accused of concealing a past shoplifting arrest, the army added.
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My great-grandparents would be dismayed by the dereliction of what was once the kitchen garden, where our pigs now rootle under the few survivors of Milicent's dozens of espaliered fruit trees, but they would, I hope, be reassured by the survival of some of the plants they put in, gifts of their friend Ellen Willmott, the great Edwardian gardener.
Hancox: All under one roof
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How can I muster the strength to return to the scene of such a crime against humanity, such a blatant dereliction of the dignity of persons (and personifications of Evil)?
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My great-grandparents would be dismayed by the dereliction of what was once the kitchen garden, where our pigs now rootle under the few survivors of Milicent's dozens of espaliered fruit trees, but they would, I hope, be reassured by the survival of some of the plants they put in, gifts of their friend Ellen Willmott, the great Edwardian gardener.
Hancox: All under one roof
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But a failure to make a choice and to argue with clarity and conviction would be a dereliction of duty.
Times, Sunday Times
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When it closed the canal was seen as a dirty, decaying relic of an industrial past, and it sank into decay and dereliction.
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As farmers deserve state protection of farmland, these people trample serious dereliction of duty.
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The press release announcing the new scheme stated that its purpose was to combat dereliction in these urban areas and to relieve the pressure on housing supply.
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Whether this was a dereliction of duty remains to be seen, but it has left us with today's rather miserable synthesis.
Times, Sunday Times
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This means that an annual levy amounting to three per cent of the valuation of the properties will be imposed on the owners until the site is removed from dereliction.
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His apparent instruction to passport control officers to wave through hordes of visitors unchecked was a grotesque dereliction of duty.
The Sun
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To do so without good reason and without consulting her parents was a dereliction of the duty of care to her and to us.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was a complete dereliction of duty.
The Sun
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After the tragedy, two officials from the centre were accused of dereliction of duty and they each received prison sentences of six and a half years.
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There would have been no poll tax, race riots, rail privatisation and less industrial dereliction.
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Frankly, it would be a pretty stunning dereliction of duty if it didn't.
Times, Sunday Times
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The scheme will help to address the increasing problems of dereliction and neglect in many rural towns because of rising levels of migration away from rural town areas.
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His excuse for this dereliction of duty?
The Sun
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Here is dereliction on a grand scale, sludged in mud dumped from the Channel tunnel.
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The public think this centre has closed and I can understand why - it's been allowed to fall into a state of dereliction.
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They've dropped the cowardice charges but he's going to be charged with dereliction of duty.
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And so we pass unto our second accommodation of these words (_unto God the Lord belong the issues of death_); that it belongs to God, and not to man, to pass a judgment upon us at our death, or to conclude a dereliction on God's part upon the manner thereof.
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel
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Whether this was a dereliction of duty remains to be seen, but it has left us with today's rather miserable synthesis.
Times, Sunday Times
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That is not a dereliction of duty by any standards.
The Sun
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To shift that burden to schools is a mistake, even a dereliction.
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But a failure to make a choice and to argue with clarity and conviction would be a dereliction of duty.
Times, Sunday Times
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In Miami, restoration of the buildings was what rescued the district from the brink of dereliction.
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Anything less than six months might be construed as a dereliction of duty, given the sickening nature of the incident.
Times, Sunday Times
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Which is what, thanks to police dereliction of duty, many will become.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's a dereliction of duty to let it happen.
Times, Sunday Times
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At no point did it cross my mind that by doing this I was in dereliction of duty.
How To Treat the Help?
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This process also has its downside, such as low wages for supermarket workers, and unemployment and dereliction in some areas.
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He had not forgiven the lamentable dereliction over the writers ' group.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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Ordinarily this lavatarial dereliction would have caught Captain Cullen's eye and vocabulary, but in the present his mind was filled with making westing, to the exclusion of all other things not contributory thereto.
MAKE WESTING
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He did not, however, specify the charges, which include maltreating detainees and dereliction of duty.
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Three suspected attackers have been arrested as well as two policemen accused of dereliction of duty and criminal conspiracy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Following a lengthy period of dereliction it has now developed into a most attractive street once again.
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It would be the gravest dereliction of duty to wait until we have suffered a terrorist outrage and then respond after the event.
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It is striking how often nature thrives in the context of human negligence and industrial dereliction.
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Navy officials, however, have a different view of his bedroom behavior at the Naval Nuclear Power Training Command, near Charleston, S.C. Even though there is no evidence the 21-year-old sailor committed any hanky-panky or that his friend was not permitted to visit, Jones has been charged with dereliction of duty.
Navy seeks to discharge sailor found asleep in bed with another male sailor
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His apparent instruction to passport control officers to wave through hordes of visitors unchecked was a grotesque dereliction of duty.
The Sun
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It would be a dereliction of duty to talk to students only about firms, cheques, and the price of wheat.
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For a man with a lot to say for himself, this was a dereliction of duty.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ten years later when the scientists moved on, the wooden building was left empty, gradually falling into dereliction.
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It's a dereliction of duty.
Times, Sunday Times
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his derelictions were not really intended as crimes
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There is a real sense of dereliction around the place.
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In light of this record, Fein's assertion that Senator Kerry has committed a "constitutional dereliction" is not only wrong, but woefully unconstructive.
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I do not feel any dereliction of duty but do feel that your brickbat is a duffer.
Dale Strategy Pays Off: Yorkie Socialists Humbled
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Vasari; he leads us from its cradle to its maturity with the anxious diligence of a nurse; but he likewise has her derelictions: for more loquacious than ample, and less discriminating styles than eager to accumulate descriptions, he is at an early period exhausted by the superlatives lavished on inferior claims, and forced into frigid rhapsodies and astrologic nonsense to do justice to the greater.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843
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However, at a meeting yesterday, the board concluded that none of the authority's staff or management was guilty of dereliction of duty.
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Meanwhile, the procurator also launched another investigation into local police and other staff at the asylum for suspected dereliction of duty.
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He was reduced to ordinary soldier due to a serious dereliction of duty.
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Litter on our streets, anti-social behaviour, dereliction - we all know what is wrong with our town.
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Yet despite what seemed a sorry tale of industrial dereliction, optimism seemed to survive.
Times, Sunday Times
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But go one street back and dereliction and decay are all around.
Times, Sunday Times
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For some reason no one wanted to hire a pilot who had been found guilty of gross negligence and dereliction of duty following the destruction of his ship.
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What you did was a grave dereliction of duty.
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This whole episode smacks of a serious dereliction of duty, certainly by the Fire Service for which the chief must be held accountable, but perhaps by other departments as well.
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However, he wasn't speaking to her because of this dereliction of duty; he was asked to talk to her because of something far more macabre.
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The result is that fewer disciplinary actions are taken and more dereliction of duty is countenanced.
Henry J. Stern: To Do or Not to Do
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But nobody could accuse her of dereliction of duty.
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He had not forgiven the lamentable dereliction over the writers ' group.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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A dereliction of duty that can cost you dear.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is a cowardly dereliction of duty.
Times, Sunday Times
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The charges include conspiracy, dereliction of duty, cruelty, maltreatment, assault and indecent acts with another.
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In their dereliction the barracks memorialise something that was altruistic and fine.
Country diary
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But conservative estimates suggested the new owners would have to spend at least the same amount again on the property to save it from dereliction.
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As part of his pre-trial agreement, he pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to maltreat detainees, two counts of maltreatment of detainees and one count of dereliction of duty.
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Everyone in the village contributed what they could to save their church from dereliction.
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In the misery of his dereliction and afflicted by the devitalizing consquences attendant upon it, he had preferred the indulgences of self-pity and the delusory solaces of paga to the exultant and proud imposition of his will, as a dominant male, on the hearts and bodies of writhing female slaves.
Rogue Of Gor
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However, leaving your post for 5 days with no way to be contacted is dereliction of duty.
Top South Carolina Republican calls for Sanford to resign
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Its roughcast walls are pitted; it has an air of frowsty, shut-up dereliction.
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Investigators concluded that 18 soldiers committed war crimes ranging from murder and assault to dereliction of duty.
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Why do we need more retail developments when there are so many properties in the town centre which are empty and have been allowed to fall into a state of neglect and dereliction?
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However, the figures are still dwarfed by the huge scale of the problem of urban dereliction and blight in the area.
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Nevertheless, in my judgment the seriousness of his derelictions of duty is such that it can only properly be marked by a significant period of disqualification.
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Ministers resigned even if caught in an unbecoming controversy suggesting dereliction of duty, attracting public accountability even if without fault.
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The scheme was designed to enhance the core areas of smaller towns and villages by eliminating dereliction but flaws in the scheme have resulted in nothing happening.
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Sixteen police officers were reprimanded for dereliction of duty and the Interior Ministry criticised the police for failing to catch the suspects after the first crime.
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They were subsequently charged with dereliction of duty, assault and other offenses.
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Her husband faces possible court martial for dereliction of duty, cruelty and maltreatment and conspiracy.
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At first he was turned down - the Commission said no-one would want to come to such a scene of industrial dereliction.
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Train journeys through the Black Country could take you through miles of industrial dereliction.
Times, Sunday Times
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- In 2006, then Microsoft Vice President Peter Moore apologized for what he called a dereliction of duty to the company's number one gaming platform: The PC.
Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
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Normally reviewing a programme without watching it would be regarded as a dereliction of a rather cushy job, but when I tell you the title of this particular programme perhaps you'll understand.
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The last lightship in Scotland has been given a substantial lottery grant to prevent it from falling into dereliction.
