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The gun was the employee’s personal weapon and the bullet left a graze wound, said the sources, who asked to remain anonymous because they weren’t allowed to talk to the media.

"Impact areas" are constructed with fire breaks, such as stone tracks, around them to prevent the wider spread of fire and grazing is used to keep the amount of combustible vegetation down.

No one surely can take being grazed by bread as a “crime,” right?

Amid the sound of birdsong and cattle grazing in the fields of the Yorkshire Dales, there is a more unexpected sound.

"You can tell that the animal has been grazing on the Palaeozoic rock, typical of those found in Wales, particularly in and around where bluestones are found," she said.