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When the ambulances stopped beside the Hamas car, the soldiers assumed they were under threat and opened fire, despite no evidence any of the emergency team was armed.

Tom Banton made history in Taunton as Somerset assumed a position of dominance on day two of the County Championship First Division match against Worcestershire.

But on mayonnaise day, standing with a balloon whisk and silver bowl, I assumed I knew what was coming.

It reawakened the ghosts of the country's violent, dictatorial past, showing people that martial law was not, as most had assumed, consigned to history.

“I think we saw a lot of businesses open because we, maybe wrongly, maybe hopefully, assumed that would remain,” McGilbert said.