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I complained to my bank. The latest statement had shown a couple of direct debits taking money out of my account and instead of saying to whom or to what they were going, it simply said they were ‘direct debits’, which is less than helpful. I therefore suggested that this was not good enough.

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St Hilda’s Church at Westward, Cumberland, I found rather hard to date. There was something of the gothic about it, but it was not medieval, and there was enough for it be Victorian. Historic England dates it to the mid-1780s, and I will go along with that. A second comment offers a curious explanation regarding some damage to its fabric:

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