1. Hilton and Boomtown previously made an unsuccessful bid for a license in Lawrenceburg, Ind.

2. The move follows an unsuccessful bid by Mr Foster to get the board to reinstate the facility Teesdale farmers regard as essential.

3. The historian Ammianus Marcellinus described it as a Barbarica conspiratio that capitalized on a depleted military force in the province brought about by Magnentius' losses at the Battle of Mursa Major in Pannonia, after his unsuccessful bid to become emperor.