The gathering in Sam's memory takes place at 19:00 GMT near his memorial bench in Chorlton Park.

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One day in 1914, while he was sitting on a park bench in Washington, D.

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The court heard how Ms Musa, from Darfur, Sudan, and her friend Mary Marandran, from the Congo, were sitting on a bench in a play park when they heard racist phrases.

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It was a win made all the more impressive because it was achieved without main marksman Didier Drogba, who was rested on the substitutes' bench after picking up a knock in the victory at Fratton Park.

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Brenda Heist sat, in her despair and isolation, crying on a park bench.

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We first met five years ago when I found him sitting regally on a bench having just swooped there from his usual home of Duck Island in the park's lake.

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