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...ba href=/anxiety/a/b icSurreyOnline Motors Jobs Homes Dating Search The Web icSurreyOnline for Home page Dating News National Regional headlines Crawley Dorking & Leatherhead East Grinstead Epsom & Banstead Redhill Reigate Sutton Tandridge Showbiz Education Sports Crystal Palace Travel Business News Business search Jobs Have your say Letters to the editor Homes Motors Family notices Classifieds What's on Lifestyle TV & radio Personal finance Weather About us Bingo Dorking & Leatherhead Hoax sparks mountain rescue ba href=/anxiety/a/b Mar 30 2006 A HOAX text message sent by a Dorking pupil on a mountain trek in Snowdonia sparked safety fears last week.

Pupils from The Ashcombe School were walking in the National Park in North Wales as part of their Duke of Edinburgh award when bad weather conditions forced them to return.

But concerns were raised by family and friends when one of the team of 19 pupils used a mobile phone to send a text message saying they had been rescued.

The team, which included five members of staff - all experienced climbers - were on the first day of an ascent of Moel Siabod when rainy conditions turned to heavy snow.

Staff made the decision to descend to their checkpoint when the text message was sent, claiming the pupils had been "saved".

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...ba href=/anxiety/a/b or pain, but Gura said authorities are concerned that, "if they get into the wrong hands, someone could wind up, at worst, dead." - ARDMORE, Pa.

(AP) - A 16-year-old girl was yelling for a 19-year-old driver who had been drinking and smoking marijuana to stop the car and had opened the door to try to get out when he accelerated and the door hit a utility pole, according to court documents filed Wednesday.

The impact ejected Jessica Easter, of Bala Cynwyd, from the sport-utility vehicle and she was pronounced dead at the scene two hours later, police said.

Easter was among six passengers in the vehicle, and others also were trying to get out when the accident occurred about 2 a.m.

in Lower Merion Township.

"At least one other person got out and she was trying to get out," District Attorney Bruce Castor said.

Castor said Wednesday that no one had been charged yet but police had found marijuana in the vehicle and were waiting for results of blood-alcohol tests on the 19-year-old driver.

- DOYLESTOWN, Pa.

(AP) - Wilda Ledoux, 81, was returning from a walk with her pug dog when she smelled smoke and saw flames climbing the wall of a neighbor's doublewide at the Colonial Heritage mobile home neighborhood.

Ledoux grabbed a garden hose hooked up next door and started dousing the flames.

Verona Palatinus, 73, came out of her nearby home and took the hose while Ledoux worked out some kinks and pulled the hose closer.

The fire in the home of Anna Foltz was out in about two m...

...ba href=/anxiety/a/b among listeners about immigration overhaul under debate in the U.S.

Senate.

Charo Martinez, the Bay Area host for the syndicated morning program "El Cucuy de la Mañana," said La Raza is committed to serving the Spanish-speaking immigrants who make up its audience, and her program has a history of supporting the community.

In San Francisco, labor unions, religious leaders and politicians representing immigrants are sticking to their plans.

After a series of small-scale events outside the San Francisco Federal Building this week, they plan to march April 23 from Dolores Park to the Federal Building.

"The ethnic media played a huge role in helping to draw people out in Chicago and L.A.

for weeks prior to those actions, so people felt this was something huge," said Sheila Chung, director of the Bay Area Immigrant Rights Coalition.

"I think things will change here in the coming weeks, with ethnic and mainstream media being more attuned to this." In Los Angeles, leaders of the Catholic Church helped lay the groundwork for Saturday's march by insisting they would fight legislation to criminalize providing services to illegal immigrants.

Also a help were news of a rally in Chicago drawing 300,000 participants March 10 and anger over last year's efforts by civilian groups to halt border crossings with informal patrols.

"There was definitely an accumulation of effects for years," said Nativo Lopez, national president of the Mexican American Political Asso...