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Once this freakish, elvish cast came into the child's eyes while Hester was looking at her own image in them, as mothers are food of doing; and suddenly for women in solitude, and with troubled hearts, are pestered with unaccountable delusions she fancied that she beheld, not her own miniature portrait, but another face in the small black mirror of Pearl's eye.
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Jack Pester-Johns was just seven when he saw Gary Ball and Mark Gagen shot Colin Pester on the doorstep of his family home.
Teenage robber put on same prison wing as thug who shot his dad; Jack Pester-Johns was just seven when he saw Gary Ball and Mark Gagen shot Colin Pester on the doorstep of his family home
Supt Dave Pester says he has been alarmed to discover that some people see it as a 'no-go zone' and are considering stopping using the route altogether.
'Yellow Brick Road' robbery gang arrests
PARENTS in Northern Ireland are getting into debt because of their kids' "pester power", a survey has found.
Nagging kids leave parents 'struggling to cope' with debt
CHILDREN exposed to junk food adverts are more likely to pester their parents for unhealthy products, a study by University of Liverpool researchers has found.
Call for more control on junk food ads; city research for cancer charity links tv and web to unhealthy diet
TSB boss Paul Pester will leave the troubled bank with a payout of nearly PS1.7 million despite standing down in the wake of a botched IT switch and a string of ongoing technology failures.
TSB boss to walk away with PS1.7m
TSB boss Paul Pester yesterday said he is quitting his job, taking a PS1.7million payout with him despite presiding over an IT fiasco.
PS1.7million payoff for TSB meltdown chief; Boss who led bank into botched IT migration is rewarded for his failure
TSB boss Paul Pester will leave the troubled bank with a payout of nearly PS1.7m despite standing down in the wake of a botched IT switch and a string of ongoing technology failures.
TSB boss to walk away with PS1.7m
Mr Pester's departure yesterday comes after a seven-year stint at the top, which has been marred by the IT woes in April that left up to 1.9 million people using TSB's digital and mobile banking locked out of their bank accounts.
TSB boss gets PS1.7m payoff after IT fiasco
IBM presented the report to TSB's board on April 29, three days before the bank's chief executive Paul Pester appeared before the Treasury Select Committee and said that all prior testing "gave us belief that we were ready for the migration".
Report suggests bank did not carry out enough IT testing
Paul Pester said he was "putting things right" after the bank's internet service was still only working at around 50% capacity for customers.
TSB online banking crisis: Bank drops overdraft fees after problems with internet service; TSB chief executive, Paul Pester, announced the move after the bank's internet service was still only working at around 50% capacity
Parents, grandparents and carers will also benefit from keeping their youngsters busy as the book demolishes the pester factor instantly and turns trips into journeys of adventure and fun.
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