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Yet even if they had won by six votes, the trend would have been the same - a governing party which has burnt through goodwill at an unimaginable pace.

After the trucks first arrived in January, there was a strong “burnt rubber” smell that eventually diminished but is still bothersome, she said.

In Galloway Forest Park, in south-west Scotland, an estimated 65 sq km burnt, nearly a quarter of the UK total.

While he may have burnt bridges with influential boxing people down to a crisp, Eubank is perfectly capable of single-handedly promoting a fight.

He’d reinvented the guitar neck and was kind of burnt out on it — couldn’t do much more with the thing.