It is a cross between a love poem to Ms Lalonde and a city-symphony documentary, stitched in with a light-hearted parody of the social-enquiry film (subjects are shown eating their breakfast egg in all manner of ways).

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"What I said was a light-hearted quip after Yakubu had scored a memorable hat-trick against Bergen, " he said.

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President Obama even made a light-hearted reference to Mr Netanyahu's warning of a "red line" with Iran's nuclear programme.

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