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A scared man carried a machete for protection but was told by a judge not to 'fight fire with fire'.The warning came as Daniel Preston was given a suspended 12-week prison term and told he risks immediate custody if he does it again. He appeared at Nottingham Magistrates' Court which heard that he had the machete on Birkin Avenue, in Hyson Green, because he had been threatened. District Judge Tim Devas told him: "Everybody must understand that if nobody carried knives on the...