staircase

They see success in these elections as "two or three more steps up the staircase" towards power, says a senior figure.

When the school closed in 2008, former pupils reminisced on social media about the grand staircase, the comforting smell of wooden floors and favourite teachers.

I focused on a press release hanging near the staircase to Mann’s bedroom that quotes him saying, “In times of so deeply depressing circumstances a harmonious home background is of great significance.”

Across the street, a UK flag hung over the staircase of a battered building, crumpled and dirty.

Behind the house was a swimming pool, beside which was a staircase that led down into what were supposedly escape tunnels, now flooded with water.