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tug

a boat with a powerful engine, used for towing barges, ships, etc.
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THE MOTHER of tug-of-love schoolgirl Molly Campbell yesterday spoke of the "soul-searching" that led her to drop her fight for full custody.
The brother of the 12-year- old tug-of-love schoolgirl who was taken to Pakistan by her father without her mother's knowledge is today expected to angrily deny that his sister was kidnapped.
THE Return To Liverpool fighting fund has been set up to raise at least pounds 12,000 for a legal battle to bring tug-of-love brothers John and Louis Tod back to Merseyside from the USA.
Irish police and the FBI are investigating a transatlantic tug-of-love story involving a boy who is believed to have been kidnapped by his grandparents.
PROPOSALS to introduce new legislation to avoid tug-of-love disputes over people with mental incapacity will have to be tested by time, according to a Coventry law specialist.
A SCOTS mum has had to come back from Bulgaria without her tug-of-love son after the boy's father defied a court order to hand him over.
Afsana, from Poplar, east London, could be forced to fly home without her son - a devastating end to her bitter tug-of-love legal battle.
A TEACHER embroiled in a tug-of-love dispute with her ex-partner has asked a High Court judge for permission to move to Russia with their fiveyear-old daughter.
THE grandparents of a missing five-year-old girl at the centre of a tug-of-love dispute have been remanded in custody after a judge concluded that they had lied when asked for information about the child's whereabouts and were in contempt of court.
What definitely won't do is the endlessly dull saga of Lola's tug-of-love baby Lexi.
Tug-of-love battle: Rami and Sami Odeh and (left) mum Dr Yusra Abo Hamed.
A TUG-OF-LOVE tangle over a "stray" chihuahua has ended in a courtroom battle.
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