The famous five are away on a splendid weekend adventure.

Do we have to go home today?

sighed Anne.

I agree said Dick.

Even Timmy looks sad.

Cheer up everyone.

Beams Julian, I booked long weekend tickets we can return anytime on Monday

Oh you are clever Julian said Anne save over 50% with the long weekend a ticket from Great Western Railway.

Adventures start here. Selected routes turn supply.

Saving in comparison to an anytime return fare.

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next stop in my love letter to the world. Recorder, microphone, action. All the way from early Japanese and Chinese civilizations to ancient Greece,

the roar of the crowd is echoing around the world. But the bloodiest forms of the

game if game it is, were said to be found amongst the British. The severed heads of their enemies used as the balls in question.

In 1863, the Freemasons Tavern in London's West End plays host to the Football Association's first meeting.

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