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'I followed Agatha Christie's footsteps at a beachside Torquay hotel'

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Orange lodge in English fishing town 'could become the biggest in the world'

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Dad found huge octopus on UK beach - and ate it in stir-fry for tea

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The types of sharks that can be found in UK waters

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The town of Lurgan paid a sad farewell to the late Dowager Lady Lurgan who had died at her home in Torquay the previous Sunday at the advanced age of 75, reported the News Letter on this day in 1878. Lady Lurgan’s coffin was carried into Christ Church by six tenantry and the service was conducted by the Reverend Theophilus Campbell and the Reverend Moore. Picture: Googleplaceholder image

THROUGH THE ARCHIVES: Funeral of the late Dowager Lady Lurgan

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