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  • While half expecting Michael Caine to turn up and offer some sort of door-related quote, the watching crowd had to be content with Jegede completing the six-metre jump with relative ease.

    London 2012: 10 best of the web | Jon Vale 2011

  • The Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) has approved a new generation of cameras that are linked wirelessly and operate in clusters, meaning that speeding drivers will be caught whichever route they take across a wide area … they read numberplates automatically and transmit data instantly to a penalty-processing centre … They are harder to vandalise than Gatso cameras because they are suspended from arms on six-metre poles.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Dungeekin 2009

  • The Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) has approved a new generation of cameras that are linked wirelessly and operate in clusters, meaning that speeding drivers will be caught whichever route they take across a wide area … they read numberplates automatically and transmit data instantly to a penalty-processing centre … They are harder to vandalise than Gatso cameras because they are suspended from arms on six-metre poles.

    Blatancy Award Dungeekin 2009

  • Out by the lighthouse a six-metre signpost stands testament to a long heritage of transitory visitors, pointing in the directions of dozens of cities across the planet whose citizens have, at one time or another, wound up here.

    An escape from the Arab Spring: one migrant's voyage to Europe 2011

  • NST Online Man uses thumbs to escape crocodile attack: At the Semada River in Balai Ringin yesterday, a man battled for dear life with his bare hands when he was attacked by a six-metre long crocodile.

    Archive 2010-01-17 Bill Crider 2010

  • It is the six-metre long backdrop of life-size photographs featuring local models in varying poses directly behind each of the six stands – each with a full view of the action.

    Men’s room mural | clusterflock 2008

  • Ever the self-publicist, he took great pride in a newspaper cutting, under the headline, 'Sought yacht, found hound,' which told how he had bought Boru from a retired Air Vice Marshall whose country retreat he had visited in response to the advertised sale of a magnificent six-metre racing yacht.

    Archive 2005-03-27 2005

  • Ever the self-publicist, he took great pride in a newspaper cutting, under the headline, 'Sought yacht, found hound,' which told how he had bought Boru from a retired Air Vice Marshall whose country retreat he had visited in response to the advertised sale of a magnificent six-metre racing yacht.

    Introducing . . . THE GUARDIANS!!! 2005

  • Ever the self-publicist, he took great pride in a newspaper cutting, under the headline, 'Sought yacht, found hound,' which told how he had bought Boru from a retired Air Vice Marshall whose country retreat he had visited in response to the advertised sale of a magnificent six-metre racing yacht.

    On Wilfred McNeilly, by John McNeilly, his son 2005

  • Known as "distribution parks," the parks would be built in cubic instead of square metres and would have eight - instead of six-metre eaves.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

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