I am not disappointed that the majority has been reduced.
Charities and the non-government sector welcomed elements of Bishop's proposals, such as the focus on female involvement and performance benchmarks, but raised concern over the need to ensure benefits from "aid for trade" flowed to the people in greatest need and reduced poverty.
· Secondary education was reduced in Turkmenistan by one year, prompting human rights groups to complain of a deliberate attempt to dumb down the population to prevent dissent.
So many grouse-guzzling hen harriers thriving in the area meant the grouse population was reduced too far to sustain a commercial shoot.
The BBC's 108 highest-paid bosses – including those on salaries of £150,000 or more – reduced the total amount of expenses they claimed in the first three quarters of this financial year by 14.1% compared with the equivalent period in 2009/10.
T-Mobile and 3 have begun merging base stations in a joint venture that will see the number of T-Mobile's masts reduced from 18,000 to 15,000 by the end of this year – a move that will actually result in better coverage.
The Paris-based thinktank notes the budget deficit has been "significantly reduced since the peak of 2009, but at a slower pace recently notably as growth has been insufficiently tax-rich".
Amnesty says that half the city's population have been displaced by "a campaign of indiscriminate air bombardment by government forces, which have also reduced entire areas to rubble and killed and maimed countless civilians".
London Live, owned by Lebedev, the publisher of the Independent and London Evening Standard, had portrayed the changes, which would have seen local programming per day reduced from 18 hours to eight hours, and from three hours to one hour in peak time, as "not unreasonable".
Or, with 28% of young people believing Brand "doesn't know what he's talking about" has the interview reduced Miliband's credentials as prime minister, only days before the election?
The agency, which works to reduce food waste and plastic bag use, has already been gutted, with its budget reduced to £17.9m in 2014, down from £37.7m in 2011.
