Hughes' widow Carol, who he married in 1970, and his daughter Frieda will be among those attending the ceremony, when the Kirkstone green slate memorial stone will be laid.

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Nursing bruises and bites, travellers are able to discover an abandoned city that is still revealing its secrets, exploring green copses and stone paths through dense jungle, bathing in waterfalls, sleeping among ruins, and most majestic of all, watching the clouds spill across the terraces at sunset each night.

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Green waverings play on the high gray stone.

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It's just a stone's throw away from the Green Zone, actually.

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"We are turning every stone to get a motive, " said Green.

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Deep into the autumn, every package or can I open takes me back to conversations around the cookhouse's huge stone fireplace, to wind rustling through alders, and sun-spangled blue-green water, to the promise of adventure every morning.

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Gentle green hills line the meandering stream, and below them lies a pretty little town with an old stone bridge.

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