The documents were originally handed in to the police when they were found at the scrap yard in Ardwick.

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"He told the scrap yard his grandfather had an old cemetery and these were just left over, " says Det.

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One day Serlin decided to take a break from the scrap yard and get a soda to refresh her parched throat.

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This is like the U.S. navy ordering aircraft carriers only to find this type of craft is newly obsolete and headed for the scrap yard.

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Mike Hancock, Liberal Democrat MP for Portsmouth South, said he believed it would be unlikely the ships, which were decommissioned in 2011, could be saved from the scrap yard.

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The clearance of 49 illegal pitches at Dale Farm in 2011 was the culmination of a 10-year battle between travellers, who bought a former scrap yard on green belt land, and the council.

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Serlin arrived at his scrap yard and quickly noticed that the floors were greasy.

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He looked through the kitchen window, but the yard was empty and all he could see, among the thistles and scrap iron, was a dilapidated cart with two rusty wheels.

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Although he is currently second in command at United Scrap, he started as a laborer in the yard and spent 20 years climbing up the ranks.

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At the edge of the city, we found ourselves in front of an automobile scrap yard.

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