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Reed said: "Windermere is a stunningly beautiful national treasure but it's being choked by unacceptable levels of sewage pollution."

The woman then called her 57-year-old son, who police said arrived to find his mother being choked by his older brother.

Holding that seemingly auspicious prize, she choked up trying to find the words she wanted to say to teenage Moore, “that little girl who didn’t believe in herself.”

As congregants shared what they lost after a recent service, they choked back tears and pledged to persevere.

Hastily abandoned Russian encampments in the forests near the roads were choked with rubbish their soldiers had discarded over the weeks of occupation.