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UNEXCEPTIONAL STATISTICS

There’s something almost bittersweet about the way I feel as I sit down to write this column. I’ve just taken a phone call from a colleague involved with the Festival of the Unexceptional, due to take place on July 30 at Grimsthorpe Castle.

He’s just done some number crunching, looking at the statistics of former Festival entrants in order to try

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