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For listeners in the States, the following episode contains references to the old Bill,

which is the police, Superdrug, which is a chain of pharmacies,

and Big Ben, which is the name of one of the bells in the clock tower in the houses of Parliament,

but which here is used for a very different purpose. It also contains some strong language.

Like a lot of small towns in the UK, have a food west manages to be both charmingly quaint

and slightly depressing. It's in Wales about a hundred miles from the capital Cardiff.

It's a small community nestled in the countryside. The sort of place where medieval churches

mix with empty shops and greasy kebab houses. But for those that are born there, many choose not

to leave, because despite the slightly rundown high street, it's the kind of place that you can

get on with your life without too much fuss. It's very quiet, it's peaceful, it's close to the sea,

and where we live, it's just your bog standard residential cul-de-sac, and nothing out of the ordinary

ever-tens to happen. And Sam, one of the 15,000 residents in Habafood West,

loves that about this place. Except today, that's going to change.

It's the 3rd of November 2006, and Halloween has come and gone. Left over Pumpkins,

dot across doorways, unsmashed, unbothered. It's getting late, as Sam winds her way through

the dark roads, lined with trees and fields, leading up to her own quiet street.

Her headlights start to sketch images of an unusual sight ahead of her, strangers on her road,

lots of them, and they're all in uniforms. Wow, there are just police cars everywhere here, lined

up both sides of the road. But she doesn't stop and stare because it's none of her business what's

going on. I went into my house, chucked off my work here, getting my uniform, all chucked in the wash

and things. Her husband though, well, he can't resist. I hear my husband shout, quick, come

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