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This afternoon, after lobbying by American officials in Cuba, the family was given back their documents.

Officials in Anchorage said the gun was given back because Santiago had not been adjudicated to be mentally ill.

His passport was given back to him.

"I was given no official access," Gallagher tells me.

But officials did say he was taken to the hospital, had some stitches, was not seriously injured and was given tickets to come back for the weekend.

One consequence is that the rules by which it operates continually evolve, and in the process frequently move too far in one direction or another.Mr Howard's response is to appeal to "common sense", and to call for government officials to be given back their freedom to act like "humans"—by which he seems to mean freedom to do what they think is right.

And as the effects of the bankruptcy proceedings are felt in years to come, some here worry there could be less city to lead by the time local officials are given back the reins.

But the courts had the power to order toll increases rolled back, he wrote, for the same reason that transit fares had been ordered rolled back: riders and elected officials were given misleading information before a series of legally mandated public hearings held in February.

No official reason has been given.

The sceptical Treasury officials were given the numbers to back up the BBC case that the world's most highly regarded public service broadcaster was facing financial meltdown because of the proposed policies of the Conservative government.

An insider says: "Officials are given targets and then report back what superiors want to hear".