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BBCThe winner of this year’s Strictly Come Dancing,…

Sarah Julian,BBC Radio WM,
Josh Sandiford,West Midlandsand
Oprah Flash,West Midlands
BBCThe winner of this year’s Strictly Come Dancing,…

“Anything I can do to help?” If ever a line was guaranteed to incense the person in charge of cooking for a crowd, it is this one: uttered in seeming innocence by a guest roused by the sound of clattering pans, and who wants to seem polite…


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