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Your support makes all the difference.A businessman accidentally discovered that he had been paying to light up part of a town centre for nearly 50 years. Norman Jacobs, 73, was amazed to find that two council street lights in Wisbech, Cambs, were plugged into the electricity supply in a building he owned.
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