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Before the lockdown

or the first three weeks of March the perfect way of self-isolating was in a pigeon hide. It all seemed easy to cope with coronavirus, but on 23 March our lives changed as the UK was put into lockdown and, apart from key industries, we were told to stay at home. However imaginative or lateral the thinking, it was not easy to justify pigeon shooting as a key industry, though at present the jury

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