What we do not see is that the shopkeeper, had he not been forced to replace his window, would have instead bought himself a new pair of shoes.

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Earlier, Mr Latham suggested a pair of ladders were deliberately left by the window for the rescue along with a wrench to smash a bedroom window.

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The hits are a pair of neat slideout menus, which are accessed in much the same way as Android's window-shade.

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Under different circumstances, Arthur McKechnie would have been one of those people you read about in the newspaper: the schizoid boy who jumps out of a window thinking he can fly, the mad explorer who crosses the Arctic with nothing but a rucksack and a pair of crampons.

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