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Quiz of the week

1) What does an anemometer measure?

2) Built during the First World War, what was ‘Little Willie’?

3) In which sport might a ‘Western roll’ be used?

4) Seven-spot, harlequin and pine are all species of what?

5) Which fairy-tale character spun straw into gold?

Riddle me this

Which two words commonly found together involve the most letters?

1) Wind speed/pressure 2) The world’s first working tank 3) High jump 4) Ladybird 5) Rumpelstiltskin. Riddle me this: Post Office

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On this day… June 12, 1701

The Act of Settlement, which prevented a Roman Catholic (or anyone married to one, until 2015) from holding the Crown, was passed. One clause, later repealed, forbade the

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