Around 3, 000 people have taken part in a guided walk to the Isle of Man's Tower of Refuge in aid of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

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The Tower Bridge idea was from a man called Tom Armitage, who describes himself as a twenty-something games designer and technologist.

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It said that an impact statement it had provided in the case of the man who vandalised Clifford's Tower had contributed to his being given a custodial sentence.

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The ArcelorMittal Orbit, conceived by sculptor Anish Kapoor and engineer Cecil Balmond, is a competition-winning 377-foot observation tower largely funded by Britain's richest man, steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal, at the behest of London Mayor Boris Johnson.

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For all of the treadmill time on the top floor of his tower, it is unlikely that Asia's richest man will live to see that day.

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This man, however, is no ivory-tower academic.

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Time is indicated by chimes, and rather than hands, intricately enameled dials depict a girl chasing a kite across Paris on one watch, while a love-struck man watches a shooting star over the Eiffel Tower on the other.

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Because cats can see in the dark, they need almost no lights, but that particular night the glow of the full moon floods the town, enabling the young man to see every detail from his perch in the bell tower.

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