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Keeper of the month

In 1957, the first dog was sent to space, Frisbees were invented and a 15-year-old Mick Chambers was about to embark on a 58-year career as a gamekeeper on the Worlaby Estate in the Lincolnshire Wolds.

Growing up only a few fields over the boundary, with a catapult, a pocket knife and a handful of snares as prize possessions, Mick admits taking it for granted that one of the

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