11.  A Braintree man was cleared of an affray charge yesterday when the prosecution offered no further evidence against him.

12.  A brown bag staple, a sandwich is easy to pack and easier to eat, requiring no forks or knives.

13.  A car converted to unleaded petrol can also run on leaded with no risk of damaging the engine.

14.  A child died of malaria at the Schweitzer Hospital one recent night, but there were no heroic measures.

15.  A closed loop is a self-contained unit that has no identifiable beginning or end, like a circle or an integrated circuit.

16.  A converted physicist not afraid of over-simplification, Valentino Braitenberg, has proposed a scheme so simple that it needs no diagram.

17.  A cordon is no more than a single stem which fruits all the way along.

18.  A councillor has no right to require an officer of the council to compile information for him.