Circles of people would fall back at the waist while a man in the centre shot an invisible machine gun.

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The duke also visited the centre's surf machine, thought to be the only one of its kind in the UK and one of only 50 worldwide.

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At 00:50 BST on Wednesday a group of people wearing masks broke into Chestnut Medical Centre on Chestnut Street, damaging the centre and stealing a cash machine and cash from a till.

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In comparison, the press centre works like a well-oiled machine.

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Mr Brunstrom was in favour of placing a machine on the back wall of Colwyn Bay police station in the town centre.

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In its hey day the machine, called the Iron Duke, after the Duke of Wellington, was at the centre of the town's economy.

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The beams would collide at the centre of the device with far more energy than can be imparted by any other machine.

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