They crouch behind plywood jails, sit on oil drums painted to look like horses and fire away at steel targets shaped like cowboys, cactuses, buffaloes or playing cards.

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The union's figures, collated from fire services in England and Wales, painted a more accurate picture of the problem than the government's statistics, Mr Wrack said.

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Opposing bail, prosecutor Gerrie Nel painted a picture of a man "willing and ready to fire and kill, " and said signs of remorse from Pistorius do not mean that the athlete didn't intend to kill his girlfriend.

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The Mission's hot spot for trial by fire is on wee Clarion Alley, where street artworks are painted over unless they deliver enough to last a little while.

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Hot enough to melt the church bells, the Palm Sunday fire peeled five centuries of whitewash off the walls, exposing enormous Gothic frescoes painted when the building was erected.

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