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A 69-year-old man who armed himself with a wooden cosh and joined a "mob" which took part in the destruction of the library was jailed on Thursday for two years and eight months.

She told the BBC: "She felt under the cosh... No support was offered to her whatsoever."

With deflation setting in and growth slowing, it's little surprise that China's stocks, bonds and currency are under the cosh.

But the visitors were soon back under the cosh and tread a fine line with their discipline, coughing up penalty after penalty despite being on a warning.

I wanted to know I could get to that point and get through it, because that could be the spell where we are under the cosh.