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Quiz of the week

1) Artist Andy Scott designed which giant sculptures that stand by the Forth and Clyde Canal extension in Falkirk, Scotland?

2) Which is the most northerly town in mainland Britain?

3) In which year did the Black Death reach medieval England?

4) In Gulliver’s Travels, what creatures were the Houyhnhnms?

5) What’s the name of a badger’s home?

Word of the week

Revellent (adjective)
Causing revulsion

100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE May 26, 1923

HACKING is a lost art; very few modern horsemen know what a good hack is, or how to utilise his paces if, perchance, one should come their way. The

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