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Among the world’s largest seagrass fields and the planet’s most important carbon sinks, this high-seas patch of ocean covers an area the size of Switzerland.

"He showed in patches what he can do going forward with runs in behind, what he can do controlling in midfield," said Green.

As for Ida Lock's parents, the road on which their daughter would have grown up leads directly to Morecambe Bay, and a small patch of sand.

However, smokers and drug users also sometimes have dark patches on their hands, due to the smoke.

“Even patches of seawater along the shoreline froze,” Hackford recalls, “and it fit Dolores perfectly: a woman totally isolated at the end of the earth, savagely weathered and tough as nails.”