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The Cottingley Fairies

was very interested in your recent article about the Cottingley Fairies . In May 1975 I was working as a researcher on the ITV children’s programme Magpie. While looking for items that might interest our young audience, I came across an article in Penthouse magazine about the Cottingley Fairies written by the journalist and TV presenter Nicolas Witchell. He was kind enough to give me a contact for Elsie Wright, the elder of the two girls, living at the time in Bunny in Nottinghamshire, so I