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What the Dickens?

IN WHAT might well be as an unexpected ‘sequel’to Charles Dickens’definitive seasonal novel A Christmas Carol, a rediscovered letter from the author has revealed that the novelist may have spent his last festive season without the traditional fare of a turkey – because the Great Western Railway had accidentally set it

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