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Jackson6612 Posted 19 years ago
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An initial post-mortem said the former England test batsman...

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01b00Police to say Woolmer died of natural causes:02b02br
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01b01font00MELBOURNE 02font01font01sup00(why are all the letters of Melbourne in capitals?)02sup02font02b00 (Reuters) 01font00-02font00 01sup01font01b00(What is the purpose of using dash here?) 02b02font02sup00Jamaican police are to announce next week that Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer died of natural causes and was not murdered as they had initially stated, Britain's Daily Mail said on Saturday.02br
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00Citing a source close to the inquiry, the newspaper says Jamaican authorities will say they are no longer treating the death suspiciously and that the 58-year-old died of heart failure brought on by ill health and possibly diabetes.02br
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00Woolmer was found dead on the floor of his Kingston hotel bedroom on March 18 after Pakistan had been beaten by 01b01font00minnows02font02b00 01b01font01sup00(What does 01i00minnows02i00 mean?)02sup02font02b00 Ireland in the World Cup, hastening their premature exit from the competition.02br
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00An initial post-mortem said the former England test batsmen had died of asphyxiation but, after a review by London's Metropolitan Police, Jamaican officers now privately agree no third party was involved in his death, the paper said.02br
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00"Mr Woolmer was not a well man. It is now accepted that he died of natural causes," the source was quoted as saying.02br
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00The paper also quoted a colleague of investigating officer Mark Shields, Jamaica's Deputy Commissioner of Police, criticising his conduct.02br
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00"With hindsight, he should have ensured a second post-mortem 01b01font00was 02font01font01sup00(Can't we use 01i00is02i00 in place of 01i00was02i00?)02sup02font02b00carried00 out. Instead of saying the death was suspicious, he rushed out a statement saying it was murder. He is going to be a 01b01font00laughing stock 02font01font01sup00(what does 01i00laughing stock02i00 mean?)02sup02font02b00," the colleague is quoted as saying.02br
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00The paper said a news conference would be held in Kingston next week.0-
  

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0 It is just convention - the report has come from Reuters office in Melbourne, so the newspaper has capitalized it as the source point. 0-

  • 0 It is just convention - the report has come from Reuters office in Melbourne, so the newspaper has capitalized it as the source point.
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0 It is just convention - the report has come from Reuters office in Melbourne, so the newspaper has capitalized it as the source point. The dash is just to isolate the source from the main text.02br
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00A minnow is a very small fish - Ireland are not generally regarded as particularly important in the cricket world, so in comparison to Pakistan who are important, they are
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0 Sorry, it should be "who were" in this context since the subject is "they" - "They were referring to who[m]"0-

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