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Quiz of the week

1) Who wrote The Darkling Thrush?

2) Which are the UK’s smallest birds?

3) What’s the name of Tom Kitten’s mum?

4) Who was the last monarch of the House of Stuart?

5) Which is the UK’s largest Norman keep?

Word of the week

Mordacious (adjective) Biting, sarcastic

100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE November 26, 1922

THE arguments in favour of the proposed St Paul’s Bridge are two, only one of which is positive—for the other is the negative one that taxpayers would not be required to pay for it, the City Bridge House Estates paying for its construction. Thus, the only real argument in its favour is that it would continue Aldersgate Street south from

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