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Steven Spielberg’s Cleethorpes adventure

Jem Clarke is in his very, very early fifties, is five foot zero inches tall and has never left the family home in Cleethorpes, which he still shares with his parents…

Today has been a day of unexpected but not unwelcome solitude.

I announced to my parents that I was off to the cinema for a morning viewing of Steven Spielberg’s remake of West Side Story.

As ever, my mother somehow thought the whole

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