This was how it was when his mind turned to high open windows or unlocked rooftop fire doors or breaks in the chain-link fences lining bridge walkways.

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The existing 84-year-old Ambassador Bridge is the busiest commercial link between the two countries.

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The bridge will also provide the final link completing the six-and-a-half mile (10.5km) circular Bay Edge Walkway and cycle route and connect it into the Vale of Glamorgan.

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All that juice comes at the price of redundant network links, though -- which means the whole thing got taken offline last night when a homeless man threw a cigarette onto a mattress under Boston's Longfellow Bridge, starting a blaze that eventually melted the fiber-optic link between Boston and New York.

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The British security forces had no desire to see the reopening of the Aghalane Bridge, a major link between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic, according to newly-released documents from the Public Record Office in Belfast.

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After his period of success at Stamford Bridge, Clarke joined West Ham in September 2008 to link up with former Chelsea team-mate Zola at Upton Park but the Hammers struggled last season, finishing one place above the relegation zone.

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