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Lesson 10 Heres the news at 11:30. ? ? Thousands of people have marched through the centre of Corby in Northamptonshire to protest against plans to close the steel works, the towns major employer. The marchers demonstrated outside the local British Steel Corporations headquarters where union leaders are talking about closure plans with the management. ? ? Hospital waiting lists in the south west of England have gone up by a quarter in the last five years. While the number of doctors, nurses and other staff have increased, the demand on the service has grown even faster. ? ? The EEC is to give another ￡31 million to Britains poorer areas. The aid from the regional development fund includes ￡13.5 million for Northern Ireland and ￡10 million for industrial improvement and road works in the north of England. ? ? In a report on rabies controls, Kent County Council has said that 17 dogs, 5 cats, 2 rabbits and 2 hamsters have been landed illegally at Channel ports in the first nine months of this year. This was seven more than in the same period last year. ? ? A derailed coal train at Thirsk in North Yorkshire has disrupted rail services between Newcastle and the south of England. Its time for the news at 3:30 here on Radio I. ? ? A girl aged 16 armed with a shotgun held up a class of children at a secondary school in Surrey this morning. Police said that soon after school began at Blair Hill Secondary School, Newton, the girl, armed with a double-barrelled shotgun belonging to her brother, went into one of the classrooms and threatened a teacher and about thirty pupils. A shot was fired into the ceiling as she was being overpowered by police officers. ? ? Surgeons at Cambridge have successfully transplanted a pancreas—the organ that produces insulin—in two patients suffering from diabetes. One patient, a 23-year-old electronics worker also had a liver transplant. The other patient, a 55-year-old housewife, had a kidney transplanted at the same time. Both patients