He praised the JCB driver for his efforts, saying he had "dragged him out of bed" about 0830 GMT when the flooding hit.

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In the 1930s, when Fry was around 9 or 10, he said his father dragged him to the barn and started beating him with a horsewhip for no apparent reason.

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As the guards dragged him to solitary, he promised that he would beat on me a little more once he got out, which he shouldn't have, because, of course, the guards then gave him more solitary than they might have otherwise.

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He said he heard fire extinguishers as he pulled Abdulmutallab out of his seat and dragged him to the front of the plane.

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His father had dragged him back from London where he was training as an ophthalmologist, when his older brother Basil crashed his Mercedes and died.

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He was charged with having hit him with the walking stick and dragged him along the ground.

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His doodling reflected some of that stress, he says, and helped him focus on what was said in meetings that sometimes dragged into the night.

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He dragged the puck right trying to get around the goaltender, only for Lundqvist to somehow deny him, sprawling to his left.

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He said about 25% of his work included "defending my people against more cuts", a task which dragged him away from his work tackling the BSE crisis.

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