With up to several hundred projectiles raining into Homs every hour, the nationwide casualty toll has surged from around 20 a day to more than 50.

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It began as a relatively simple tale of two characters, meeting by chance very early on a fine May morning (meaning, one assumes, it wasn't actually raining) while walking out of London up Tottenham hill, and spending their time in the discussion and practice of the joys of fishing.

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As they streamed out of Wembley stadium after their historic win it was raining, but for the supporters who travelled up from south Wales the gloomy weather was the last thing on their minds.

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It had been raining earlier but that had been a mere warm-up compared to what would come that is, with what came.

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It seems possible to me that some people decided on the day it was not worth showing up, especially if, as yesterday, it was raining.

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It was raining lightly, and about a half-block away, the drops on the car windows picked up the glow coming off the place.

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Up ahead, a group of Americans, some wounded, were desperately trying to escape the bullets raining down.

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