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Anne Strickland asks on CAPX: Who has the courage to fix Britain’s debt crisis? She states:

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Downham Village Hall was once the village’s Methodist Chapel. It was constructed the same year as our chapel, 1817, though I find it rather more attractive with its central doorway and second tier of windows. It is clearly an establishment of proportion; its website states:

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I was delighted to inspect another statue of Oliver Cromwell last year, in the town of Warrington. Having seen the ones at Westminster and Wythenshawe, I began to wonder if only places beginning with that letter had such statues, until I recalled St Ives.

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The strange little town in which I live recently held its annual festival of ice sculptures. Much as I resent the town council’s incessant increasing of the Rates, these events seem to draw many visitors, who presumably spend their money in the shops.

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