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Police and locals conducted extensive searches in the surrounding countryside – with potholers descending into some of the disused mineshafts with which the area is dotted.

On our visit, he is careful to shield the pictures of his family dotted around the house.

And Lloyd dotted down at the end of a sweeping move with the clock in the red to ensure her side registered the final points of the match, having also banked the first.

The mudstones, found in a dusty riverbed by Nasa's Perseverance Rover, are dotted with intriguing markings nicknamed leopard spots and poppy seeds.

“That class was life-changing for me,” he says, his conversation dotted with references that range from Andrei Tarkovsky and Hunter S. Thompson to Vice videos and YouTube creators.