The questioning was, even by the standards of the garrulous current court, unusually intense and pointed.
In an unusually frank speech to an audience of leading rail industry figures, Carne said: "While our passenger safety performance is the best in Europe, about 600 railway workers a year – employees and contractors – are injured to the extent that they cannot return to work the next day.
4 Property Ladder reappears on TV. 5 Bombastic US television stock-picker Jim Cramer appears unusually subdued and forecasts a slump.
Unusually laced with wheat malt, which gives it a thicker mouthfeel and a notably earthy, grainy aspect, this hits you with a triple whammy of big, sweet, juicy caramelised malts; then unsweetened grapefruit, pepper and lemon notes; and finally a lingering bitterness that rolls on and on.
As a way to tackle America's unusually stubborn chronic unemployment problem, Obama is expected to announce a deal with the leaders of large employers, for example, that will involve them agreeing not to discriminate against the long-term unemployed when making hiring decisions.
He has also acquired a reputation for brusqueness with journalists (he walked out of an interview with the Guardian in Iowa) and, unusually for an American politician, he hardly ever smiles.
Westlife are one of the last remaining bands from pop's late-90s boom period and have enjoyed an unusually lengthy run of success.
The report, issued by the office of community-oriented policing services (Cops), presents an unusually detailed review of the use of fatal force by police officers, tracking fine-grain details of each shooting incident, such as number of shots fired, number of suspects involved, number of police involved, races and ages of police officers and suspects, whether the suspect had a gun and much more.
Most of the day, however, he was unusually quiet in public.
The US seems concerned by his win and, unusually, has issued a veiled warning.
In light of apparently unusually high levels of heart attacks, DLA Piper also called for an independent study into sudden cardiac arrests over the next three years and for there to be proper investigations into unexpected or sudden deaths.
