Hints and tips:
...When we were playing the Roses matches [Lancashire v Yorkshire] we’re talking 30,000. In those days people would arrange their holidays to watch county cricket.”...
...The Indian batsmen guided their team home to a comfortable victory via Duckworth and Lewis, losing only two wickets of their formidable batting line up....
...With the almost certain return of growth in the previous quarter, it is not an “L” but not yet robust enough to be a “V”....
...They were followed by the V-2 rockets in September 1944. The last German bomb to fall on Britain was at Duckworth in Hertfordshire on March 29 1945, only five weeks before the end of the war....
...But she added: “I still hold out hope it will be a V-shaped recovery. It might not be the most likely scenario but it is not as unlikely as many people think....
...Inside Central Asia By Dilip Hiro Overlook Duckworth, £25 For those who still get their “-stans” mixed up, Hiro’s book provides a detailed and nuanced overview of the region of central Asia....
...It’s now in the V&A’s textile collection.”...
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