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187

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Police code for murder, in the State of California.

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Sierra Leone is ranked 177th of the 187 countries in the UN human development index.

Under a UN-backed government resettlement scheme, Britain has given homes to just 187.

Burundi is one of Africa's poorest countries, ranking 180 out of 187 states in the 2014 UN human development index and it relies on foreign aid for about half of its national budget.

Speaking during his joint press conference with the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, on Thursday, Cameron promised a judge-led inquiry, after Northern Ireland's first minister and Democratic Unionist party leader, Peter Robinson, claimed he had been kept in the dark about pardons for up to 187 republicans and threatened to resign over the issue.

Billy McQuiston, who was a senior UDA commander in west Belfast, contrasted the HET's alleged bias against ex-loyalist paramilitaries with the secret scheme to grant 187 IRA members immunity from prosecution – a deal that brought power sharing to the edge of collapse this week.

After talks with the Northern Ireland secretary, Theresa Villiers, at Hillsborough Castle on Wednesday night, Robinson also claimed that some of the 187 IRA on-the-runs wanted by police for Troubles-related crimes had been given royal pardons, effectively granting them amnesties.

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The Liberal Democrat MP John Hemming, who declared £187,000 of income, primarily from a software company he founded before becoming an MP, noted that "[i]t happens to be that I pay more in taxes than my net parliamentary salary and hence am value for money as an MP".

The boost to household finances from low inflation is also flagged up on Wednesday by supermarket Asda, which found the average UK household had £187 for discretionary spending in April 2015, an extra £17 a week compared with a year earlier.

Coachella in California, which is currently in action, and Tomorrowland in Belgium, taking place in July, top the charts as the most expensive festivals overall this year, costing £187 and £186 per day respectively.

Joy Mercer, director of education policy for the Association of Colleges, says the 187,000 adults enrolled on such courses were learning English to improve their job prospects, help their children with schoolwork and become fully integrated citizens.

Whereas housebuilding grew by 187% in Spain and 177% in Ireland between 1996 and 2006, the British increase was just 12%.

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