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Prisoners weren’t allowed to talk with people outside their cells, but the pair quietly got to know each other whenever the guards were distracted.

Drivers were urged not to be distracted behind the wheel.

As Dorothy pleads for the Wizard not to fly away without her, we’re distracted by hundreds of waving extras who visibly don’t give a hoot what happens to the girl.

Officers became distracted when a second man approached the vehicle.

"This chaotic reshuffle shows a Downing Street in crisis – totally distracted from fixing the damage they've done to the economy, jobs and small businesses," he added.