"I was told it was touch and go at one point - apparently if I'd have got to hospital two minutes later I'd have been dead, " said the 25-year-old Norwich DJ, as he recalled his horrific accident in July 2011.

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If I hadn't found him then, the boy would be dead by now.

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"If Gran weren't dead, this would kill her, " I said, shaking my head.

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If he hadn't already -- I understand right now that he was probably already dead before yesterday.

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"If I had taken one more knock, I would have ended up paralysed, or even dead, " he told the Mail on Sunday.

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And every time I teach certain stories - I mean, for example, James Joyce's The Dead, which I talk about in the book as the perfect story to go to if, for example, you want to write a party scene, which party scenes are very difficult to write.

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As I said, dead performers receive no royalties, and the CD itself costs a few cents (if that) to make.

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"I can give you a number of examples of people if they had been asked to travel they would have been dead, " said retired GP Dr William Roberts.

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