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The red, white and black national flags that decorated the lampposts were also taken away and replaced with what is known as "independence flag".

At the service, each member of her class also decorated part of a bench, which is now used as part of the school’s ‘bench buddy’ scheme.

More than 1,200 years ago, an unidentified Maya artist decorated an extraordinary, 16-inch circular ceramic plate, painting one half in flat, nearly black slip and the other a creamy off-white.

"It was my dream house and I had just decorated it as I was planning to have lodgers living with me," she said.

The tree, which towers well above houses on the street, is decorated each year with help from a cherry-picker device to reach the higher branches.