Regular Expression To Remove Leading While Space

Hii
I have a data like this
20200 Kuala Terengganu
Terengganu
Luala Terengganu
I want to remove the Leading white space in the Second line .Can anybody help me to
write regular expression for this?
I want my result like the following :
20200 Kuala Terengganu
Terengganu
Luala Terengganu
Thanks In Advance
Jim John

But there's no difference between two group of lines which you posted. Could you please format your input and desired output with please?
Kamran Agayev A. (10g OCP)
http://kamranagayev.wordpress.com

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