So he spent five years building a 20, 000-square-foot castlelike home surrounded by a 12-foot-deep, 5-acre moat dug out of an abandoned tomato field.
Tyneside businessman Barry Moat is a candidate to buy the club, and Shearer admitted Moat - who helped organise the former Newcastle striker's testimonial - is a good friend.
The new 11-story American Embassy building will be surrounded by gardens and a partial moat on a circular 5-acre plot ringed by a tall wall.
There was once a moat, but 19th-century urban planners filled it in to get rid of mosquitoes.
Last week, he said he bore no malice to Moat despite his life-changing injuries and was determined to return to work after treatment.
This detritus, man-made, earth-grown, was a kind of moat surrounding the building proper, this modern fortress, painted a yellow that was surely labelled Tuscan.
Many of the most eye-catching claims, such as the one (rejected) for the upkeep of a now-iconic moat, were made under this provision.
As well as Pc Rathband, Moat also shot his ex-girlfriend and killed her new boyfriend before shooting himself after a manhunt.
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Archaeologists, conservation specialists and English Heritage are involved in the stabilisation, repair and long-term monitoring of the moat wall.
The director of operations of the firm which supplied the Tasers used during the stand-off with gunman Raoul Moat is understood to have killed himself.
The hunt for Moat began on 3 July after he was suspected of shooting his ex-girlfriend Samantha Stobbart, and murdering her partner, Chris Brown, in Birtley, near Gateshead.
The stadium at Monastir was surrounded by a virtual moat of water and the district's governor came to direct clean-up operations to allow the Caf inspectors to gain access to the venue.
Moat, who was cornered in Rothbury, Northumberland last July after a week-long manhunt, was holding a sawn-off shotgun to his own head at the time.
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In other words, to some degree Microsoft is becoming the un-unionized GM of the West Coast (though in all fairness, due to its moat, it still produces a 30% return on capital, high margins, and a healthy balance sheet).
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In May 2009, Mr Wallace, 23, formerly of Moat Road, Mr Kerr, 25, from Carnduff Drive, and Mr Lewis, 22, of Rossdale - all in Ballymena - were all convicted of his murder and given minimum jail terms ranging from 10 to 13 years.
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