Paramedics asked for directions to a nearby location and after he guided them to the scene along the river they spotted a woman's body on a sand bank.

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Already a sand-bank, a trench and an electrified fence guard the 200-kilometre-long border.

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Along the bank, a breeze sweeps pink sand into the water, a cloud of fairy dust twinkling in a beam of sun.

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Meaning: no more heads in the sand, at least where an objective value can be put on the bank's exposure.

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The bank levy approach focuses on banks and bailouts, whereas an FTT focuses on putting sand in the wheels of speculators in addition to banks.

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They had been protesting at a site in Hesketh Bank operated by energy firm Cuadrilla which was given a licence in 2008 to extract gas by pumping water, sand and chemicals into shale rock at pressure.

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