The building teams continue adding icicles throughout the season to replenish melt-off and keep the exterior looking fresh.

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As recently as the 1950s a character called Frank the Frame Burner drove his horse and cart around London collecting cast-off 19th-century gilt frames to melt down.

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Top off your visit with melt-in-your-mouth fresh sushi for breakfast as another morning winds down in Tsukiji.

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But he warned that some MPs believed that support for the current system among peers "is motivated purely by self-interest and that it will somehow melt away if we can be bought off by some vague offer of grandfather rights for existing members".

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