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Hi there, Welcome to our third edition

Thank you for reading the third edition of the Keeping It Local Magazine. We hope you’re all keeping safe and sane in these crazy times. I’m sure there is a good chance everything could have changed from when I have wrote this piece but regardless make sure you look after yourselves and you older relatives and neighbours.

We have another magazine full of puzzles for you again this month. There is something for in here for everybody whether you want something fairly simple to do with our Prime Minister Wordsearch at the back (please don’t use it as a dart board) or something to really sink your teeth into on a lazy day like the codewords at the front of the book.

If you consider your self as a professional problem solver then maybe try and sink your teeth in to the Zebra Puzzle.

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