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On Southend Pier, the world's longest, which ends after 1.34 miles in water so deep that flounder, mackerel, cod and plaice can be caught in it, a grey August day finds knots of anglers at every shelter.
ECONOMIST: Musings on a favourite memento mori
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It is a drab autumn day in the 1980s: the skies are grey, the streets glisten with rain, the trees are bare.
BBC: Bringing the Berlin Wall back to life
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Police said Daniel was 3ft 2ins (0.96m) tall and was wearing a blue Adidas t-shirt, blue tracksuit bottoms and grey trainers on the day of his disappearance.
BBC: Daniel Entwistle
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The utilitarian grey bridge cuts a striking figure in the bay and transports 250, 000 cars a day, but it has never been a tourist attraction like the nearby Golden Gate bridge.
CNN: San Francisco turns a bridge into art with 25,000 lights
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"I wear things to make myself feel good, but my style changes every day according to my mood, " muses Hidemichi Sawa, dressed in a grey waistcoat and shirtsleeves as he strolls through fashionable Daikanyama with girlfriend Chika Hamamoto.
BBC: Harajuku: Tokyo's best people watching
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However, there remains the grey area of whether, and why, a helicopter might be carrying the module around on Christmas day, but to some it is the most plausible theory.
BBC: Rendlesham Forest UFO mystery still leaves questions