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Love my job! Love my family! Love music! Believes humanity peaked in the mid 90s. Believes Bath is poorly served by the LibDems. Retweets are not endorsements.

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Mark S
8 months
Amazon has been awesome this Christmas! Haven’t had to spend a penny on shopping in town since our council here in Bath shut the roads, installed bollards, shut out emergency services, installed fine issuing cameras and doubled parking fees. Thank you!
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@SamanthaTaghoy @elonmusk @Keir_Starmer One of these "Ten Important Men", LibDem Kevin Guy is currently head of Bath's council.
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Samantha Smith
2 years
10 important men tried for years to block an inquiry into CSE in Telford, including: • Shaun Davies - Labour Leader of T&W Council • Clive Jones - Director of Children’s Services • Bill Tomlinson - Leader of T&W Lib Dems • John Campion - PCC People should know their names.
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2 years
@NickFletcherMP 👏👏👏👏👏 Please ask again and again and again.I never voted for or signed up to live in a district,zone,cell…a 15 minute city. I came to live in the 2xUNESCO World Heritage City of Bath and love it just the way it is… We have more traffic lights and road signs than trees now
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2 years
@coldwarsteve Forget Paul McCartney, Diana Ross and Fatboy Slim. The first proper superstar I want to see/ meet at Glastonbury is “Coldwar Steve” at the Free University of Glastonbury at 11am on Friday. He is our newest / youngest national gem!
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1 year
@IanDunt What did the kids on streets adjacent to yours do to deserve your street’s traffic and pollution?
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1 year
@IanDunt This example you picture is very unlike what the council is doing in Bath by turning neighbour against neighbour
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9 months
Bath’s LibDem £10000000 Ring of Steel. Nightmare…
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1 year
What is the appeal to Bath’s LibDems of dividing the city into “Cells”? What is the appeal to Bath’s LibDems to divide up neighbourhoods? What was the appeal to Bath’s LibDems of running income generating assets down?
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1 year
Blends right in that does... Anybody done a risk assessment for placing a dark green box with no reflectors or warnings on the corner of a 4 way junction by any chance?
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7 months
@LBC Drink, drugs, gambling? £120k a year is plenty to afford £2k a month…
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1 year
“Vote Green” in the windows with a Green plastic Astroturf front lawn! Like the Non Political Fake Mayor who is the Green Party Council Candidate! I just don’t get the Green thing at all but I wish them luck tomorrow all the same. Every non LibDem vote is a good un!
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Mark S
3 years
This is how LibDem Bath in 2022 supports local businesses. Remember this picture next time you vote. Not one person in this picture had any idea they were doing the wrong thing by parking on single yellow lines on a Sunday.
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1 year
I received this flyer this morning via Royal Mail. Can anyone explain to me please exactly how voting LibDem in Bath in May will “Stop the endless chaos at Westminster”? Seems to me to be a blatant lie which only the extremely gullible among us will believe.
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2 years
Who’s going to Glastonbury? I just downloaded the EE app and started thinking about who to see! So excited! My 39th year! Bring it on! 🥳🤯🍻
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1 year
@jonburkeUK So if the same thing happened with a lady driving a Tesla, that would be better would it?
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2 years
Why doesn’t Bath have a river taxi / river bus service? Wouldn’t a relatively rapid service from Windsor Bridge to Pultney Bridge with a stop or two in between be useful?
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Mark S
1 year
This is how they deal with council trials elsewhere. Even Bath’s hard of hearing LibDem council would find it difficult to manipulate the consultation outcome of this trial.
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Mark S
9 months
@GBNEWS @Angiemut Does anyone anywhere still listen to anything MPs tell us to do? Isn’t it meant to be the other way around???
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Mark S
6 months
Bath's LibDem councillors and donors won't like this one little bit... LTNs: Councils told to consider residents' support under new guidance
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Mark S
8 months
@BristolMoves @kimholdersmith @Angiemut @bathnes You won’t read a word in the local media against anything the council does here in Bath. Bath is in desperate need of a reputable investigative journalist. We had a journalist called Stephen Summers not long ago who criticised the council and he was moved on in weeks as a result.
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Mark S
2 years
35 years I have voted LibDem. Never ever ever again. Living in a cell isn’t my thing even if lots of LibDems love the idea. No thank you! These people can’t run a nursing home let alone a city…
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2 years
@GPristo @Aquaesul @sidcot @BathJoanna @Emilio4Bath @bathnes I've voted for @LibDems since I moved to Bath nearly 30 years ago, but this current bunch needs to go. They're ruining our city and much as I said I'd never EVER vote Tory, I can't see any option at the moment if we want Bath to thrive.
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Mark S
1 year
What Bath’s LibDems won’t admit and what they don’t want you to know. Bath’s LibDems have over 40 LTNs on the drawing board. Bath NEEDS a change. No Lib No Dem No Vote
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1 year
Are you ready Bath? Just vote LibDem and wait for the 45 more LTNs to be installed then wait for your “Cell” allocation… No Lib No Dem No Vote via @spectator
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Mark S
1 year
Who else noticed Bath’s Mail Order Mayor and Green Party councillor for Lambridge proudly posing with her near £5000 bicycle with the big yellow “Not My King” sticker on it?
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1 year
Why won’t Bath’s LibDems share the plans for the next 40+ LTN and ANPR camera locations with us before the election next month? What are they afraid of?
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3 years
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1 year
Bath’s LibDems dropped the Dem. We now have a LibDem Behavioural Change Team in Bath, paid for with our taxes. Instead of our elected council listening to us, the council is forcing us to listen to and obey them. That’s not what I voted for. I voted for people to represent me.
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2 years
Can we really afford another 4 years of LibDem rule in Bath? £7000000 to close exactly how many roads in the name of anti terrorism? The money they are wasting is our money and has zero to do with the climate emergency they tell us is their priority…
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1 year
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2 years
Arrivals hall at Heathrow T3 totally empty. No queue anywhere. Super polite and efficient Army people running it like a dream. Never seen it so well run. Border Force should stay on strike forever for the benefit of everyone who is or ever will travel through Heathrow!!!
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1 year
The LibDems have employed an additional 300+ people and just look at the place. Locals 'refuse to come to sad, grimy Bath', resident claims
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7 months
@LordWalney Liberal Democracy has already failed. Come to Bath and watch it failing Live anytime…
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1 year
Couldn’t say it better myself
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Mark S
2 years
@Little_Elefant @YukteshwarKumar He doesn’t have to get it. He does more work, brings more joy, does more good, tries harder, is a better husband and father and achieves more than any anonymous LibDem hate filled troll or blatant LibDem racist can ever imagine. Dr Kumar is truly a scholar and a gentleman.
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Mark S
1 year
LibDem Bath in 2023. Its not only Charlton House residents who suffer under LibDem Leader Kev’s rule: Anger as 'optical illusion' cycle lane leads to 59 injuries
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Mark S
1 year
If I received a vote for every message of kindness/support I’ve received in the past 36 hrs I reckon I could run for MP instead of Council!It’s been a ride I have learned from and will never forget. I send my love and gratitude to each and every one of you.Keep up the good fight!
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Mark S
2 years
Why doesn't Bath have any of these? Thinking Bath Uni, Bath Spa Uni, Charlotte St Car Park, the P&Rs, the RUH. Remember when the council said we have a climate emergency before suggesting children cycle up and more lethally down North Rd became a thing?
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Mark S
8 months
@Jlsu171 Here, in Bath, they don’t wonder why footfall is declining (most recently for the Christmas Market for example), our council is determined to reduce footfall by restricting access to shops / city centre(s), remove parking spaces, extortionate parking fees etc…
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Mark S
1 year
This what the LibDems will forever be remembered for. The vandalisation of one of the world’s most beautiful cities under the rule of people brought in from afar. We must in future vote only for local people who care about our city more than they care about their own careers.
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1 year
@Wera_Hobhouse Meanwhile, in LibDem run Bath…
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1 year
@FreeBathStreets This is what Bath’s LibDems unveiled this evening, the night before the elections. Now they can declare any LibDem victory as an endorsement for further restrictions of movement…. See what they did there?
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1 year
Dr Kumar is a gift to Bathwick. He is the brightest, most honest and hardest working councillor in all of BANES. He loves this city more than anybody. Let’s all come together and support him and make Bath a better place.
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1 year
@Leighlines A heartbreaking waste of money and natural resources despite the happy ending…
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2 years
43% Objected 32% Supported £500000 to be spent narrowing roads and building cycle paths nobody uses anyway. It’s all a play on words. Our LibDem cult will do whatever it chooses regardless until they are voted out for ignoring what is plainly the majority vote. Why consult then?
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10 months
@UniofBath @UniofBathIPR State funded research confirms that government schemes that fine/ tax drivers is responsible for improving air quality. Nothing whatsoever to do with technological advances of course. Who’d of thought…
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4 months
@JakeWSimons Loach has issues. He lives in Bath and certainly isn't on the same page as the majority of people here...
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2 years
@barkingmadmarks @john_wimperis Lawyers to cover Kev’s back again and again and again. How much do you think they are spending defending themselves against their appalling treatment of Dr Kumar?
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Mark S
1 year
Who wants 40+ more LTNs? Who wants Bath to be divided into Cells? Who wants dozens of ANPR cameras? Who wants more consultations that mean absolutely nothing to anybody? Who wants worse roads? Who wants a LibDem leader who lies about council houses? No Lib No Dem No Vote
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Qamar Rafiq 🇬🇧🇵🇰
1 year
It was lovely day out leafleting in Lansdown too supporting our fantastic candidates @Emilio4Bath & @Justin4Bath @BathCA
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10 months
@gazcol @glastonbury No they didn't...This would have been my 41st year (83-24) but it hasn't worked out this time...
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1 year
I don’t feel the need to and I don’t feel I have the right to tell other people how to live… Am I the odd one out?
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2 years
@BathEcho What about Bath’s LibDem council leader giving away 25 hectares of BANES’s land for £0 while his family simultaneously pocketed nearly £1000000 for their 15 adjacent and identical hectares. That’s the real breaking story on everyone’s lips around here.
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2 years
I miss those days. When I belonged to the city and the city belonged to me…
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4 months
@AndrewRTDavies @cardiffuni Regardless of politics, shame on Cardiff Uni for allowing an incident like that to occur on their campus. Below par management. Whoever is running the place, they failed miserably...
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3 years
@PBarrett8 @Kishan_Devani Eton College should publicly apologise for the total lack of any integrity their alumni have inflicted upon this country…
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1 year
@ArchRose90 They love the publicity…Stop mentioning them and watch them fade away…
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1 year
@coldwarsteve @Number10cat The coming together of two great minds! Now we know everything is going to be ok!
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Mark S
3 years
Warner Brothers arrive in Bath with 100s of HGVs, £millions in equipment 1000s of staff and even more onlookers and handle security simultaneously on multiple sites.BANES can’t run the Christmas Market with a year to prepare this year because they can’t recruit enough security…
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3 years
Bexley & Sidcup by-election LibDems 5th place. Why do the people of Bath vote for the losing horse? What’s the point? It is costing our city dearly. £2.2million of our money is about to wasted on stopping us getting around the city…Madness…
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Mark S
1 year
The isolated and alone LibDems embarrassingly failed to secure a £20000000 grant to get the Fashion Museum up and running again. Is anyone surprised?
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Mark S
2 years
That’s my first vote in the bag!
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3 years
@YukteshwarKumar The LibDems have well and truly lost the most intelligent, hard working, devoted councillor they had. I hope Bathwick will stand by him and show him the respect he deserves. They will be better for it…
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Mark S
3 years
I felt like a proud father today when I saw the Green Park Road Car Park full! There was even a traffic warden on patrol! All the LibDems told me it couldn’t be done and I was wasting my time. 100 spaces £3.60p 2h is a great earner for BANES! A good job done!
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7 months
Isn’t it odd that Somerset Live disables comments on stories about council scandals? Bath SO needs an unbiased media source. Council house building costs 'totally out of whack'
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1 year
The council says they are planting 100k trees this year to save the planet. I wonder how many they’ve cut down this year…
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1 year
@RichardG4723 @TrendyTechST Try Amazon first for something more reputable…
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3 years
Ballachulish in the middle of nowhere,Scotland can afford to run a welcoming and staffed Tourist Information office but the 2xUNESCO World Heritage City of Bath with 3million approx visitors per year can’t afford one.Please WAKE UP people,this LibDem council is a total disaster.
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3 years
Welcome to LibDem run Bath in 2022. I didn’t vote for this, did you?
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2 years
@Wera_Hobhouse @Conservatives Might it have something to do with the fact that only white, middle aged, well off people are welcomed by Bath’s LibDems? Bath’s Conservatives have welcomed people of all backgrounds and are far more representative of the population of Bath.
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2 years
It really does take a special kind of stupid to bulldoze one of Bath’s biggest city centre car parks (Avon St) 6 weeks before Christmas!
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7 months
@karimtoubajie If only I could afford one...
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1 year
Too many people don’t know or don’t care so vote LibDem as a protest against mainstream politics. The evidence of the harm this action is causing is there for all to see.Who wants 45 more LTNs?Who want to live in cells?Who wants to spend £1000 per mtr on cycle paths nobody uses?
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@Katzenjam7 @bathnes Yet they constantly moan about needing more government handouts. Our money. Because they have zero business acumen. How did we end up with a council like this.
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2 years
Does Bath need to employ a cycle warden? Somebody who can enforce adherence to the rules by cyclists and scooter riders?
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2 years
Agree word for word…Pls read. Bath looks 'downright shabby' and 'unloved', says local man
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2 years
Not Karavan Kev’s or the LibDem’s finest moment…
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3 years
While the prime minister is announcing policies which make it easier to travel around the world, LibDem Kev of Telford is working on policies that will make it near impossible for me to get to Larkhall without incurring a fine. LibDems = anti freedom all of a sudden???
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2 years
Look’s important… Who is behind this?
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3 years
@PeterStefanovi2 Cold War Steve sums it up
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1 year
A scholar and a gentleman and Bathwick is lucky to have him…
@townieroy
Images of Bath and Beyond.
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2 years
When is the footbridge on Avon Street going to open? £2million that cost and its just sitting there year after year totally unused.
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2 years
@Wera_Hobhouse Shouldn’t you be campaigning to take their cars off them on arrival into the uk and imprison them in residential divisions exactly as you are doing to us? You are a hypocrite…
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Mark S
1 year
36 hours to go until the election! Let’s take back control and get Bath, Keynsham and surrounding areas into the headlines for all the right reasons. It will be close but with your help, we CAN do this.
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Remember when LibDem Kev and Co gave away all that land to the National Trust "in order to preserve the Meadows"? Ever wondered what he was up to? Here you go... What better way to preserve the environment than to build a hotel... No doubt, planning application is just a rubber
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@clrjoannawright @Leighlines @bathnesld Who in central government is responsible for the £5mil overspend on the Ring of Steel? Who in central government approved the £1mil land giveaway and who in central government wrote the cheque to the council leader's family business for £775000 during Kev's 1st year in office?
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2 years
Sums them up perfectly
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7 months
LibDem Manda Rigby is really screwing people over with this…It’s not just LibDem donors and councillors who live here… Concerns raised over impact of traffic restrictions on road safety via @BathEcho
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2 years
This kind of spiteful attitude towards a woman expressing a legitimate concern illustrates exactly why I have left the LibDems after 35 years support…
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Ms McFarland had just spoken as a member of the public about the dangers of redeveloping Entry Hill without a proper risk assessment as it was formally a rubbish tip. After she had finished truth dodger CarraKev suggested to Knasher that they build an abattoir to spite her.
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3 years
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Will Bath ever get a much needed Tourist Information Office? We have received around a thousand phone calls and letters etc and wonder if it will ever end… The LibDems have made such a mess of all this…
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3 years
I hope Bath’s cyclists are spending a fortune in all the shops on / near Milsom Street everyone else is excluded from. Today’s score while sitting at home. Amazon 1 - Jolly’s 0 Just Eat 1 - Miller & Carter 0 Amazon 1 - Waterstones 0 Kev Guy 1 - Bath 0
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