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Sharkey told police her memory was scattered with blanks about Callum's birth - but she recalled how Neil and Matthew must have been out of the house.

The big empty swimming pool in the yard is scattered with rubbish.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, some places will see showers but they will be well scattered with warmer and brighter spells.

Behind each book on the store’s shelves is a journey scattered with roadblocks.

The nearby Navajo Nation is scattered with old uranium mines — over 500, in fact — awaiting cleanup, exposing locals to risk of "lung cancer from inhalation of radioactive particles, as well as bone cancer and impaired kidney function from exposure to radionuclides in drinking water," according to the EPA.