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Dobbie Hall in his hometown of Larbert, Stirling, commissioned the oil painting to celebrate the actor's career and rise to international fame in the early days of cinema.

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"In any given year there's just so many games and some of those will rise to the top, they'll get lucky or they'll just be brilliant enough to punch through that noise," he tells BBC Newsbeat.

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But the company says it needs a 53% rise to fix pipes and keep up with demand.

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He said 2.8 million people were currently on long-term sickness benefits and added that, if the government did not act, the level would rise to more than four million.

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His rise to the top job raises the stakes for the UK.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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