Skelton has made a remarkable comeback after breaking his neck four years ago to take part in the Games.

BBC: O'Connor claims gold medal

Hugo Turner, 23, from Exeter, has recovered from breaking a vertebrae in his neck five years ago, which is why they are raising money for the spinal charity.

BBC: Atlantic Challenge youngest rowers cross halfway point

And just a couple of years ago, the saxophone player strapped his horn around my neck and showed me where to place my fingers on the keyboard and how to blow, and I did and I felt utterly transported.

NPR: Saxophone's History as 'The Devil's Horn'

Opinion polls say the state's two smaller parties are running neck-and-neck, though in the elections there five years ago the Greens, with 10%, got more than twice as many votes as the liberals.

ECONOMIST: Germany

Dr. Michelle Collie, director of Performance Physical Therapy in Rhode Island, says she started seeing patients with head, neck and back pain caused by mobile devices six or seven years ago.

CNN: Your smartphone is a pain in the neck

Eight years ago he fell out of a tree climbing after his 4-year-old son and broke his neck.

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As I described in my first published short story more than 15 years ago, had my first and oldest sister not died in utero with her umbilical cord wrapped around her neck, I would never have been born because my parents were committed to a 2-child family.

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