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He arrived on scene at 09:30 GMT but it was a further five hours before a hushed murmur rippled through the crowd, signalling the bird had become visible.

Anxious faces and hushed talk spread through the crowd as the night stretched on and the tightness of the race became apparent.

On the darkest night of their season last week, the Dodgers didn’t linger in their hushed home clubhouse.

Shell-shocked residents gathered in the lobby and other communal areas, as they tried to make sense of what had happened, and who they had lost, in hushed conversations.

A young man told me in a hushed voice that when he’d been suicidal the summer before, his father had brought my books to him in the facility and that reading had kept him alive.