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    A life on the tiles

    Oct 21, 2020 2 minutes
    Jason Goodwin

    I AM thoroughly news averse these days, but I did enjoy a feature that appeared in the 20 years ago, under the headline ‘My life on the tiles’. In it, my friends Kieth and Maureen Cock-croft explained how they became Mr and Mrs Roofer, tiling and slating their way from Bradford and Bournemouth to Bodensee and beyond, with Maureen overcoming her

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