Rodney Blackall wrote:
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Alan Holmes wrote:

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What on earth was this all about?

To prove that some folk do not know when to edit a posting of irrelevances.

Aye; that and know little about paragraph spacings. I didn't know there
was a Jewish colony on the IOW. I am sure I would have heard of the
genocide and scortched earth policy that would have ensued.

But they did most of the recent British history in the 5th and 6th
form, when I had lost interest in it. I was off, skiving classes by
then, funny I never missed much until now.