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Norfolk's milking it

Norfolk CC Tories appear to be yearning for a slice of Old England that was actually ushered out by one of their own idols.

Norfolk CC Tories appear to be yearning for a slice of Old England that was actually ushered out by one of their own idols.

As every 1970s schoolchild knows, eight years before one Margaret Thatcher fulfilled her destiny and entered Downing Street, the then-education secretary stopped funding school milk for children aged over seven. This earned her the rather mild (compared to those showered on her in the 1980s) sobriquet of Thatcher, Thatcher Milk Snatcher.

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