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Surgical Spirit: The Discarded Tract

Here, in Leicestershire, we have our annual historic “Hallaton Hare Pie and Bottle Kicking” contest on Easter Monday. Up in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, thousands flock to a similar event on Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday. It’s a chaotic “football” match, a free-for-all described as a “mediaeval mass rugby match with very few rules”...

2 July 2020