PA system

“They announced it over the PA system, but I was so oblivious to everything but what I was doing on the mound that I didn’t even hear it.”

Nelson Mandela, who reportedly piped her music through the PA system of Robben Island while he was incarcerated there.

Backed by drums, shakers and a PA system, the group cast chants over the fence toward the building, in hopes those inside could hear them.

Then came the announcements over the PA system — “trauma on the ramp,” and a minute later, “Medics at the door” — heralding the arrival of the second gunshot victim, brought in by Seattle Fire Department paramedics.

It has cost Mr Davies, who served in Afghanistan, about £3,500 for the lights and PA system around the town's war memorial.