Huntingdonshire

American

[huhn-ting-duhn-sheer, -sher] / ˈhʌn tɪŋ dənˌʃɪər, -ʃər /

noun

a former county in E England, now part of Cambridgeshire.

Huntingdonshire British

/ ˈhʌntɪŋdənˌʃɪə, -ʃə /

noun

(until 1974) a former county of E England, now part of Cambridgeshire

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Sarah Conboy, Liberal Democrat leader at Huntingdonshire District Council, said it was an event "you hope you never get caught up in".

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The painting, a portrait of Coulson Fellowes, who was MP for Huntingdonshire from 1741 to 1761, had a pre-sale estimate of £15,000 to £25,000 but went for £508,000.

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Police said the day after the attack Beresford had used a phone to look up Mr Duquemin's family on Facebook and searched for defence solicitors and the phrase "Huntingdonshire police".

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Peterborough had the 46th highest rate in England with 482 cases per 100,000 people, and Huntingdonshire was one place behind it with 480 cases per 100,000 people, but that was a 2% week-on-week fall.

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Before that, it was absorbed by the now-defunct south-west Cambridgeshire seat, and further back still, in the 1970s and early 1980s was part of the Huntingdonshire constituency which in 1979 welcomed its new MP, John Major.

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