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...helen.thomas@ft.com Letter in response to this column: HS2 is a solution in search of a problem / From Sarah Flannery, Knutsford, Cheshire, UK...
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...Both his father, the garrulous, often-drunken Henry, and his uncle Thomas were executioners for the British state....
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