In today's often sanitised world, the long-standing coastal tradition of wrecking may still live on.

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He captured the English industrial scene at its murky climax, before it was lost or sanitised.

ECONOMIST: Singular visions

The arrest in January of a prominent young opposition MP, Ayman Nour, underscored the sanitised nature of Egypt's political scene.

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An entire wing of the castle has been restored and all rooms in the hotel have been deep cleaned and sanitised.

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OK, it may be a little sanitised, but it's the Bangkok equivalent of Borough or Barcelona's Boqueria, where well-heeled locals shop for the finest produce.

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The fury spread to Tunisia's coastal cities, growing as gory imagery relayed by cell phones and the internet clashed with the sanitised blandness of state television.

ECONOMIST: Tunisia

The programme-makers heard stories of contractors being forced to work on dangerous missions with inadequate equipment, incident reports sanitised to protect company reputations and numerous deaths of former soldiers.

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Where other mountain hikes feel somewhat sanitised and safe, moulded and filtered through a raft of warning signs, health and safety regulations and the presence of other people, here it was just us two and an unforgiving landscape.

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By contrast, those who refuse to stoop to sanitised corporatese may cannily use their gaffes to burnish popular, straight-talking personas - as US Vice President Joe Biden and London Mayor Boris Johnson have managed to do.

BBC: Grimacing at business buzzwords

Instead of merely selling the format to successful shows - a process that resulted in the dire sanitised American versions of AbFab and One Foot in the Grave - the BBC now takes the role of executive producer when shows are remade abroad.

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