The third incident happened at Chapman's Pool on the Isle of Purbeck on Sunday when Portland Coastguard took a 999 call from a person who spotted a man stuck in mud.

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Coastguard officers attended to the man while a specialist fire service mud rescue team used water lances to free him.

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It has a picture of a man surveying the wreckage of his home, destroyed by the mud.

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Another man, Ali, lifted the edge of a blanket inside a mud-brick home.

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In Lesotho, in a hillside village beset by famine, an old man named Elliot tugged at Fritz's sleeve and took him to see his home, a tiny mud hut.

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As William led his men ashore in southeast England on their way to what was to become the historic Battle of Hastings, legend has it that this man-who-would-be-king rather ignominiously stumbled and fell face-first into the mud.

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