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Nino apologizes profusely to the dazed Gianni — who was fleeing bullies — and leaves him, in lieu of contact information, with a crumpled sketch of fireworks.

Huge metal containers – broken free from their articulated lorries – rested at unfathomable angles amid a jumble of cars, crumpled furniture and treacherous mud.

For now, let’s celebrate the end of the most vexing, mean-spirited and household-dividing presidential election in modern times, as it heaves itself across the finish line and crumples in a lousy heap.

And while the way that England crumpled without Knight was indicative of her importance, it was also an alarming insight into how poorly prepared they are for her absence in the future.

Behind the man, a woman lay on her left side, almost naked, on a crumpled white sheet.