British photographer Henry Bourne had photographed Dixon before, once dropping him via cherry picker onto a water tower for a shoot.

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And I shot a picture from a cherry picker, from up high.

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Kenneth Joyce, 53, of Lanchester, suffered fatal head and neck injuries in 2008 after falling to the ground when a girder struck the cherry picker in which he was standing.

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Subsequently, residents watched as a cherry-picker arrived to deliver a portion of Kentucky Fried Chicken.

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The council said the houses would be taken down "piece by piece" by workers using a cherry-picker.

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Long lines of cherry-picker trucks thundered east, to help with what is expected to be a vast clean-up operation.

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The demolition work started at roof level on the dormer window of the house at 7 Aelfleda Terrace where contractors used a cherry-picker to start by hand.

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