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Something to crow about

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Every July a group of 16 men get into something of a flap in the mid-Cheshire village of Moulton. This is because, dressed as crows in black outfits with bright yellow beaks, they perform a dance routine that dates back to the 1920s. They are the Moulton Crows, and their dance is the centrepiece of, and unique to, the annual Crow Fair.

So what does the Crow Dance involve? It has the 16 crows imitating the swooping and diving of the birds,

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