1.   Fruit splitting can occur when good rains follow a hot, dry spell.

2.   In coastal Midwich, now situated in California, an epidemic of pregnancies follows a spell in which the townspeople are rendered insensible by some unknown force.

3.   No further details were given on the cause of the blast, which followed a spell of unseasonably warm and exceptionally dry weather.

4.   The blast followed a spell of unseasonably warm and exceptionally dry weather.

5.   He has struggled to produce his best form and his outburst followed a spell out of the side.

6.   He is now plying his trade in Switzerland following a spell at French club Toulouse.

7.   Singapore President Ong Teng Cheong has been discharged from hospital after a check-up following a spell of illness, the government said Tuesday.

8.   That followed a spell of Newcastle pressure, during which Faustino Asprilla sent an overhead kick just over the crossbar.