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Merrie couldn’t find her husband anywhere. The day before Christmas Eve was always busy and at 9.30am she’d expect to find him in the warehouse, checking on packing and loading and last-minute orders.

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Liz had a theory about what was behind the rumours of witches and buried treasure

ISOBEL could tell her six-year-old pupil Angela hadn’t been practising. Having clomped her way through her scales, she was stumbling painfully through her pieces. Isobel tried to think of some encoura

At 94, my gran was the hear t of our family. But hours after chatting to her, I got a shocking phone call and my world crumbled. By Brian Kirk, 50

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