Miss Fletcher's own life was markedly conventional, with not an axe murderer in sight.

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Sweeney, who had lived in Hackney and Camden, had been given four life sentences for trying to kill Delia Balmer with an axe in 1994.

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And then last week, in a slightly surprising (but not altogether shocking) turn, the Mayor, Dave Bing, and the U.S. Department of Transportation decided to axe the project in favor of a new fleet of buses.

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