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Noss Mayo, Devon: This scenic drive – engineered in the 1880s for Edward Baring of the merchant banking family – emerges into the glare of sun on cliffs overlooking Wembury Bay
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Seven young athletes lit the Olympic Cauldron at the end of a dazzling and very British ceremony
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