The black-bearded pair now confronting me in Harvey Nichols were the same two I had seen earlier ordering a watch shop to turn off its music.

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He may get 67 if he can yet draw in the five bearded, black-coated members of United Torah Judaism, and perhaps even more, if some of Labour's seven recalcitrants can be persuaded to fall in behind their party leader.

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Five hundred yards from the lawyers, a group of heavily bearded men wearing checked Arab kaffiyehs and black turbans were engaged in their own protest.

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