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    :: Saturday, April 15, 2006 ::

    Scaffold collapse workers stable - BBC News, UK
    Up to 200 people were working at the Witan Gate site but many were on a lunch break when the scaffolding collapsed.

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    'I just ran for my life' - Milton Keynes Citizen, UK
    A PAIR of carpenters working on the top two levels of Jury's Inn Hotel leapt to safety from the scaffolding as it went crashing down beneath them.
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