Ms Bartholomew also sent the TV star underwear, cuddly toys, chocolates and DVDs.

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It's not clear if another company has the shoot-'em-up computer game rights, or the merchandising of Craig Whyte cuddly toys.

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At baby showers in America, expectant mothers coo over cute onesies, baby sunglasses and cuddly toys, in China the most valued gift is imported milk formula.

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Newsbeat went to meet 13-year-old Georgia Woods who, with her mobile phone, laptop and the cuddly toys on her bed is like most other girls her age.

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But they still hold out the possibility of sudden wealth, if the grabber-arm can avoid the giant cuddly toys and instead unlock, in a glittering torrent, the glassed-in trove of silver.

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When the heavy garden spade got too much for her, she took flowers and toys a blue teddy bear, a cuddly dog and hung them on a wire fence in the middle of the wilderness.

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