1.  Rip Van Winkle, a kindly, lazy, henpecked man, set out for a remote part of the Catskill Mountains.

2.  Steady jobs are almost nonexistent in remote parts of the country.

3.  The engineers are also looking at the possibility of transmission by satellite for Europe and remote parts of the UK.

4.  The first reports of the fires emerged in mid-August from remote parts of Kalimantan, in the Indonesian part of Borneo.

5.  Children were dispersed to remote parts of the house and subjected to a strict regime of meals, walks, and lessons.

6.  Soldiers from the Central South region are braving snipers and shell fire to get food aid to remote parts of Bosnia.

7.  VOLUNTEERS who use their own cars to ferry people to hospital from remote parts of the North-East could face a hefty tax bill in future.

8.  Mr Threlfall said covering the more remote parts of the upper dale was a problem.