The Isles of Scilly Steam Ship Company's Skybus service said the matting would help to "reinforce the surface".

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It was covered with black rubber matting and reinforced with steel beams the contestants alone weighed close to four thousand pounds.

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In some of its neighbourhoods, houses with swimming pools are quite common, though others are still makeshift hovels of rush matting.

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Accessories in natural materials, such as cane shades and grass floor matting, give you a good base on which to build.

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Plastic matting is to be installed over the grass surface of the Land's End runway to allow flights to resume between the Isles of Scilly.

BBC: Plastic mats to strengthen Land's End runway

The plastic matting will be installed over the next few weeks.

BBC: Plastic mats to strengthen Land's End runway

San'ya has aged with its residents, old men with creased faces and missing teeth who squat and smoke on the pavements, drift from bar to bar, or sleep it off in the winter sun on cardboard and plastic matting.

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All have been individually decorated, so it is impossible to generalize, but ours came with cream walls, bleached wooden floors covered by sisal matting, wicker screens, a four-poster king-size bed, wingback armchairs, a large writing desk, dramatic framed black-and-white photography and decoration that ranged from traditional African sculptures to a tower of Louis Vuitton steamer trunks.

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