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A monument to W. E. Henley, whose best-known poem is “Invictus” ( “. . . I am the Master of my Fate, I am the captain of my soul . . .”), in the churchyard at Cockayne Hatley ...

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Former Manchester City captain Tony Book has died at the age of 90. One of the most successful players in the club's golden era of the late 1960s and early 1970s, Book won domestic and European ...

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