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In fact, trying to hold yourself bolt upright all day could do more harm than good, he told Morning Live.

Ms Woods said Mr Skripal was conscious and sat “bolt upright” on a bench, Ms Woods said.

Actress Tuppence Middleton says she has "woken up bolt upright in the middle of the night" since rehearsals began for her latest play.

“As soon as I started reading it, I sat bolt upright. I didn’t think it would be that good.”

When middle-class visitors were finally accorded seats, Wilmore said, theaters preserved their old sightlines by forcing the sitters bolt upright — “part of that Victorian strictness in all areas: ‘You jolly well better sit up and listen!’”