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Red, white – or green?

I DON’T know about you, but I still blush to remember the walk of shame to the bottle bank at the end of our road in early January. Just when I thought I’d got rid of the last mementos of yet another New Year’s Eve of bad judgement and questionable behaviour, I found a further box of empties lurking under the stairs and one on the back step, too. Oh, and my missus had sweetly stashed some in the boot of the car as

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