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Living on the edge

2012-04-03T09:52:00+01:00

wonders and blunders

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Some people will go to great lengths for satellite TV

Thanks very much to Ken Tracey for sending in these pictures he took at Palace Court in west London. “Looks like he’s fitting a TV dish,” he observes of the daring climber on the roof

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