"We anticipate 50 of the new ambulances will be in service before Christmas, " Director Paul Henry said.

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Then Christmas Eve and Christmas passed, as had Henry Cleary's eighth birthday.

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Henry Mears also admitted that the advertised "bustling Christmas market" was not something which visitors to Lapland New Forest would have found.

BBC: Victor (left) and Henry Mears

Literary sleuth and Vassar literature professor Don Foster, who famously exposed Joe Klein as the author of the book Primary Colors, sides with the family of Hudson Valley gentleman poet Henry Livingston Jr. in arguing that Livingston is the Christmas poem's true author.

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