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While on paper the final Test is a dead rubber, it could still serve as a crucial bellwether for next October – especially if it is the last time England play before then.

The floor was made of wire, with rubber mats as cushioning.

England's games against Serbia, at Wembley, and in Albania are dead rubbers, with qualification for next summer's showpiece already assured, but for Bellingham the stakes are still high.

Five men climbed into rubber rafts and paddled toward shore to mark the landing site with lights—and immediately discovered a major flaw in the plan.

Andrew Leung, the outgoing president of the legislature, did not agree that the institution had become a rubber stamp.