In Cambridgeshire, a straw bear burns to the ground
Amid the Fenland rain, the Whittlesea Bear Festival and its Morris dancers furrow worthily on
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The glory of defeat in the FA Cup
By the fifth goal, the Boreham Wood terraces were emptying. Why would anyone put themselves through this?
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A steam train in Essex helped me forget the frigid depths of winter
A trip to nowhere and an Abba sing-a-long are the stuff of escapist Britain
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