Most of us had a choice at 8 pm Monday night: Watch The Antique Road Show, Miss America Secrets Revealed, or the BCS Championship Game between Alabama and Notre Dame.

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Each time the same mechanic told her the car belonged to the antique brigade and should have been off the road for the last thirty years at the very least.

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In those days, the great shopping highlight was haggling at the old antique market at Panjiayuan or browsing the stalls on Yabao Road, jostling with Russian traders who came south on the Trans-Siberian Express to buy clothes by the bulk load.

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Mrs Hunter-Mann-Purdy and Ms Purdy, both of Harwich Road, were part of a group that plotted to convert antique or obsolete .44 calibre firearms into deadly weapons, the court was told.

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