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Its editorial team said John O' Groats was "notorious for being so desolate" and described it as a "bleak outpost".

Singh was born on 26 September 1932, in a desolate village in the Punjab province of undivided India, which lacked both water and electricity.

In the hours before sentencing, the defence barristers told the court about the killers' "bleak and desolate" upbringings.

Before sheriff’s deputies found his body on Thanksgiving morning last year, shot to death in a desolate stretch of warehouses and pallet yards west of Compton, Eduardo Escobedo Sr. had become rich beyond his dreams.

Through tears, Florian painted a desolate picture of what his life had become.