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East Somerset founder remembered at cathedral service

FURTHER tributes have been paid to international wildlife artist, East Somerset Railway founder and locomotive owner, David Shepherd, during a memorial service at London’s Southwark Cathedral on March 2.

Nearly 400 people turned out despite the wintry weather to pay their respects to David, who died on September 19 last year following a 10-week fight in hospital with Parkinson’s disease.

David, who bought

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