With the London Philharmonic providing the audio backdrop, lasers are to light up the night sky, beaming across town to touch several landmarks: the London Eye, the Gherkin, Tower Bridge.

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Onjefu said that when he headed outside, he immediately noticed a large, dark plume of smoke rising in the sky on the north side of town.

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To mark a week since her disappearance earlier this month her parents released a sky lantern, while others in the town released pink balloons.

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"All this talk of a town center is pie in the sky, " he says.

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It was a pitch-perfect sky blue day when the driver arrived to chauffeur me around town in the 2012 Bentley Mulsanne for a full day of New York business on a Monday in August.

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Restrictions were imposed after the kick-off time for the match at Huddersfield Town's John Smith's stadium was changed to 17:20 GMT to allow Sky to broadcast the game live.

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Under an unnaturally black sky is this lateral plane of illumination, because, as it turns out, we have a power outage in town.

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