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The Editor’s Christmas quiz

So that was 2021

1) Which high-street retailer went into administration after more than 200 years in business, closing its last department store in May?

2) Footballer Marcus Rashford was awarded an MBE in recognition of his campaign to support vulnerable children—to whom did he dedicate it?

3) Self-driving shuttle buses were trialled for the first time in the UK in which city?

4) Born on September 18, what did Princess Beatrice and her husband, Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, name their baby girl?

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