She admitted the song "A Day in a Life" had puzzled her ever since it was released in 1967, and asked for a little help from her friend Straw in shedding light on the lyrics.

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Supermarket giant Tesco has recently been given a green light to build Britain's first ever straw-powered Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plant to meet the electricity and heating needs of one of its distribution centres.

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At the time of his dental work, Walker was still small and light enough to be operated on an improvised table made from planks of wood laid on straw bales.

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