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Mother Caroline Willgoose says "kids are going to school frightened" and the installation of knife arches could be a deterrent to crime.

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"She was in the house on her own, I think she felt frightened," he said.

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No one goes to Cannes expecting to be frightened by a film about a long-dead British writer.

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A community just a few miles from here, but also all over the UK, is terrorised, frightened and grieving.

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Then the door opened, and there were two women, who were so surprised and frightened when they saw me that they started screaming.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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