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Retail therapy is a Fair trade

Over the past 18 months of off-and-on lockdowns, who can honestly say they haven’t dreamed about shopping? I don’t mean nipping down the shops for milk, bread, cigarettes and emergency chocolate or sitting hunched over a keyboard. I mean real shopping. Shopping for stuff that sets the pulse racing and wilts the credit card. The type of shopping they call ‘retail therapy’. A new shotgun, a new 4x4, new tweeds, new handmade shoes or perhaps that helicopter you’ve been promising yourself.

Well, after a stuttering start, the Government is allowing us out once again to indulge in the our favourite pastime without fear of being arrested. And what better way to celebrate than visiting the Game Fair at

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