shears
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A GENTLE teacher was stabbed to death with a pair of shears in his garden as his horrified son looked on.
OH, I say, those cheeky Perrier people wanted to sneak a pair of shears into Wimbledon to star in a special promotion photograph.
Each of the students has adopted one of the 90-plus rose bushes at the school entrance, but feeding and watering and deadheading are a lot different from taking a pair of shears and cutting their bushes down to size.
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