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Thu 11 Nov 2010Island on track to meet challenge of tax change that cost it dear
MANX LETTER:It is appropriate to link Thomas the Tank Engine and the island given the huge revenues of both
REV WILBERT Awdry had a problem when his son Christopher, in 1942, came down with measles, and was lying, bored, in bed. In desperation, he made up stories about a group of talking steam engines living on the island of Sodor.
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