If warding off the missile threat were only a matter of building shields and hunkering down under them, the problem might seem a fairly simple one.

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As one man, they laid down their shields in the dust, then their pila, then their swords.

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Approved in late 1995, the regeneration scheme was anchored around the resuscitation of Shields Road, the main shopping centre in the east of Newcastle, which had become run down.

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