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A trap for young – and old – players

Rugby aside, New Zealanders are not great exponents of overkill, which is why the little-used power to crush boy racers’ cars has been massively superseded by the deterrent employed by a genteel county in England.

Recent complaints from indignant drivers have brought to light a little-known scheme in a leafy Cambridgeshire village, which, while conceived a little later than New Zealand’s, has been

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