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From: Birmingham Evening Mail (England)
Date: 20040923
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BRUMMIES have given a big thumbs-up to the Evening Mail's Great Family Reads.

Scores of people queued up at newsagents across the city to snap up their eagerly-anticipated free copy of Kenneth Grahame's classic The Wind in The Willows.

Every reader who bought a copy of yesterday's paper was given a free hardback book.

The offer proved so popular that SupaCigs newsagent in ...

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