Feng shui had to be considered: A new round window receives morning sun, and a wall was built to block the chi flowing in from the front door from going out the opposite windows.

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If you pushed on an open door in space, it would push you in the opposite direction.

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When I reached my own cottage, I parked the rig in the lay-by opposite and let myself in through the side gate, coming across the garden to the back door, which was always left unlocked.

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Eyewitness John Weir, who lives opposite a terraced house containing a number of flats in Forest Road, said about 20 officers had forced its front door open at about 2350 BST last Wednesday during the original raid.

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