These include the original loss of the Borders railway in the 1960s, the loss of the Border Reivers professional rugby team and the lack of improvement to local trunk roads.

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Zebra skins adorn chairs with gilded edges, a Shanghai Tang trunk doubles as a bar, local cooking pots become showerheads in outside showers, and a rectangular crystal light fixture designed in-house was, Lazarus insists, such a hit that Fendi copied it.

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It would also include downgrading the existing Huntingdon A14 viaduct from a trunk road and providing two new roads for local traffic between Trinity Foot and a new Girton interchange.

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The oak - which had a huge hollow trunk said to big enough to seat six people at a table - had become a local attraction for walkers and visitors in recent years.

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