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Shooters opened fire from pickup truck beds and atop ladders, used drones to spy on targets and maintained caches of automatic weapons in storage units.

Graduates looking for jobs have been told to find local jobs first to get on the career ladder.

"It started really with DIY items, wallpaper strippers, ladders, drills, your usual kind of thing. As I got further into my DIY, I started to borrow the mitre saw to do the skirting boards."

The trade body representing estate agents - Propertymark - said that rising living costs are "becoming financially testing for many people, especially those working out their finances to step onto the housing ladder for the first time."

Like that famously terrible It's a Royal Knockout game show from 1987, she seemed to have a knack of being unceremoniously knocked off life's ladders but still being able to climb back up again.