The whale rose about 5ft above the water, showing a sliver of its back and a cluster of cream coloured barnacles, and then dove back down.

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Viscount David Linley, son of the late Princess Margaret, designed the light-filled, cream-coloured, see-and-be-seen room.

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Over this he is seen wearing a cream-coloured bisht - a cloak worn by respected sheikhs, tribal elders and religious leaders in the Arab world.

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Today this low-rise town is a modest spread of boxy cream-coloured stone, but its prosperous heyday was in the 6th Century and remnants of Byzantine finery remain behind its unassuming facades.

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Morph was later joined by his cream-coloured colleague Chas.

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Over the course of three field trips, researchers unearthed 12 of these cream-coloured, leggy arthropods - a class of creatures with segmented bodies and jointed legs that includes spiders, insects and crustaceans.

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