Friday evening.  7.30.  Getting ready to go to see “Watchmen”.

Like many people, I check my mobile phone periodically to see if I’ve missed any calls.  At 7.32 I saw that I’d missed two from a friend who I knew was in Spain on holiday.  Weird.  Surely something serious has happened if he’s ringing me while he’s on holiday, so I called him back.

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