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BBC Worldwide, the corporation's commercial arm, has quietly ditched a controversial website set up last year to offer advice and information about the environment.Insiders claim BBC Green has been shut down because it was likely to be criticised by the BBC Trust, which is conducting a review of Worldwide's activities following criticism from commercial competitors that it is overstepping its remit and distorting the markets in which it operates. The trust is expected to publish its findings next month.The closure of BBC Green casts doubt on an ambitious plan to launch four similar advertising-funded 'portals' covering subjects including parenting, the countryside and sport this year. It is thought they may now be postponed indefinitely, although a spokeswoman for BBC Worldwide insisted they could still go ahead.The corporation's commercial arm says BBC Green, which was funded by advertising, has been closed for commercial reasons.'We've stopped publishing on the site,' said a spokeswo

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Call of Duty: World at War balances the exciting action of a conventional shooter with a frank acknowledgment of war's brutality.

"Oliver Twist," presented on PBS by "Masterpiece Classic," broadly sticks to the book while scrambling characters and events in small ways guaranteed to enrage Dickens purists.

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