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Gail Edmans

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Gail Edmans is a media sales manager, formerly at The Independent. She is in training to take part in the UTMB ultra-marathon and blogging about it at http://blogs.independent.co.uk/author/gail-edmans/

A troop of Girl Guides march down Fleet Street in London, as part of the new Road Safety Campaign organised by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, 22nd April 1961.
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The Girl Guides have nothing to do with religion and they never have

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