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Never knowingly undersold

JOURNEY back in time to Britain in 1923 shows a country beginning to change rapidly after the horrors of the ‘war to end all wars’. The BBC, formed at the end of 1922, dominated the headlines, becoming the first to broadcast live from cities and towns as far apart as Aberdeen and Bournemouth. The granting of equal rights made it possible for women to divorce men and, in science, John Macleod and Frederick Banting won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of insulin. All progress, indeed, but glancing through the

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