1.   The whole town was going up in flames.

2.   Now the town is going for the big one, but to get the title Entente Florale, it needs to beat off competition from seven other nations.

3.   Towns go all out for City Challenge cash Multi-million pound City Challenge bids were sent off by hopeful Cleveland towns this week.

4.   And they remind every West Side loyalist exactly how their once heavenly town is going to H-E-double-hockey-sticks.

5.   As friendly little towns go, this is one of the friendliest.

6.   At dusk the town goes dead.

7.   But some towns are going beyond the practical to protect workers and residents who could be exposed to anthrax.

8.   Does the Motor City have any real direction these days, or is the town just going around in circles, spinning its wheels?

9.   For the next hundred years or so, the once-elegant Dorset town went on gathering dust.

10.   He admits he knew the town would not go along at that point, with so little notice, but he was prepared for that.