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Virtual celebration of Wight steam 50th is big online hit

AROUND 80,000 people watched the start of the Isle of Wight Steam Railway’s 50th anniversary celebrations on January 24 – but very few of them were on the island for the occasion.

With the UK in lockdown and local coronavirus infection rates rising – before Christmas, the island was one of only three areas of England designated Tier 1, the

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