31.   The town is the first in Europe to become Connected -- linked to a new super highway of information which is being built around the world.

32.   Women Deacons in the Diocese of Oxford are to be the first in the country to be ordained as priests.

33.   A student has made education history by becoming the first in the country to pass a new exam.

34.   This time around it looks like being a more permanent fixture, despite him being called up Strain-style for the firsts in recent weeks.

35.   The two-day event was the first in a series being staged by the North of England Mountain Bike Association.

36.   They are the first in the New Marske unit to achieve the honour.

37.   They are part of a joint tour with Sisters Unlimited, the first in a series designed to bring us European folk music.

38.   The case is the first in Scotland under a law introduced less than two weeks before the accident.

39.   But this win was extra special -- his first in a top championship.

40.   LOTHIAN schools may become the first in the country to introduce a blanket ban on staffroom smoking.