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Buildings left standing were shot through with artillery, missing corners or walls and peppered with gunshot and shrapnel holes.

But in an upbeat speech peppered with jokes, the former home and foreign secretary said he knew from his past life in business what it felt like to fail and get back up again.

Fireworks greeted his arrival on stage, and the whole event was peppered with tributes to him.

Now, four years on, he has painted 615 variations of a fried egg, some split, some peppered, double yolked, big, small or in a skillet.

The impressive set by the late Ezio Frigerio is realistically peppered with camera operators and all the other business of filming.