Dan Plesch, director of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, warned against seeing the attack as a turning point.

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And a packed Centre Court crowd, who had come in the hope of seeing Murray repeat the heroics of Monday's win over Gasquet, were left to applaud the brilliance of Nadal.

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The report states that their levels of use vary, with the Folkestone walk-in centre seeing 1, 000 patients each month and the minor injuries unit in Faversham seeing just 100.

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But it stands now where none can avoid seeing it, on a bend in the river at the centre of Moscow.

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