1.   Dr Gates, of Durham University, is working with Middlesbrough Botanic Centre in what all parties hope will be a profitable venture.

2.   Another big primary looms next week, but the front-runners in both parties hope by then they will have no contest.

3.   The emotions, the parties hope, will wash over the electorate and strike a positive chord.

4.   These parties hope a conservative government will be elected that will be more reluctant to give Palestinians control over security in Hebron.