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Adra hopes in vain that the mainstream media will report on these indignities, then has a visiting journalist talk grimly about once doing such a piece: People “paid attention to that for 10 minutes.”

"I found neither my home nor my siblings' homes were standing. Trump doesn't speak in vain. He knows that Gaza is no longer a place fit for human habitation."

She and husband Lloyd Richards, who live in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, tried in vain to find someone to fix it - until as a last resort they decided to call BBC One's The Repair Shop.

"It just feels like Callum's death was in vain, it's not made any difference and people are still speeding."

He alerted two police officers - Sgt Michael Hooper and PC Stephen Quartermain - who were attempting in vain to break the windscreen of the cockpit, but all three eventually moved to safety.