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This England: With a couple of kookies…
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68% Informative
A sofa dumped in a Gloucestershire village has become an unexpected tourist attraction with fans taking photos and giving Tripadvisor reviews.
The owner of a cockerel that awoke neighbours early has been ordered to pay nearly 4,000 .
Harold Brown let the bird make “unacceptable levels of noise” disturbing their sleep “from as early as 5am each day ”.
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48
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33
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91
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English
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40
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