| Murray v Wawrinka as it happened
A lovely forehand volley at the net and Muzza is 15-0 up, but Wawrinka's whip-like backhand pulls matters level. Oh dear, another double fault at a very inopportune moment and it's 30-30. Murray moves to match point when Stan over-hits a forehand and he clinches his fourth career tournament title when Stan's acute backhand just lands on the wrong side of the tramline. Great game, strange game, but entertaining nonetheless. Murray 6-4 4-6 5-2 WawrinkaAwesome tennis from both players - a rally of 26 strokes comes to an end when Murray dispatches a forehand winner after stretching Wawrinka with a precise lob. He follows that up with the most impressive forehand cross-court winner you could wish to see. More baseline bashings and Murray suddenly finds himself three break points up. And he doesn't need a second invitation when he smashes a wonderful forehand winner down the line for a double break lead.
Gimmicks gone wrong
McDonald's – In 2005, billboards said "Double cheeseburger? I'd hit it." The company removed the ad amid concerns over sexual connotations. Toyota – In the late 1980s, the automaker tried to push its MR2 in France. Spoken in French, MR2 sounds a lot like the French word for defecation. Schweppes – Tried to market its Tonic Water in Italy, but mistranslated its product as Schweppes Toilet Water. Kentucky Fried Chicken – Translated its long standing slogan "finger-lickin' good" into Chinese, but it came out as "eat your fingers off." Audi – In May, Audi planted 40 2-metre-high sculptures of a double T along streets across Toronto. The advertising blitz for the 2008 Audi TT caused a backlash from residents and led to the immediate removal of the sculptures. .
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Families in Landemere Syke, Northowram, had to move furniture upstairs as water levels rose. First buses couldn't go further than Hebden Bridge and a replacement bus service ran between Hebden Bridge and Rochdale due to rail flooding in Walsden.'" There was a bit of a row in Todmorden because there was insufficient rain to warrant the activation of local flood defences. There is, by the way, a very nice signal box in Hebden Bridge. _______ Here is a correction: when I fled to the executive suite of Liverpool's city centre Travelodge (they give you a cardboard box for breakfast) after Capital of Culture's opening night, I reported that 20,000 people had watched the goings on St George's Plateau. I was wrong. The official estimate was 38,000, rather more than the organisers had expected, let alone hoped for.
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