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…’We haven’t really begun. Huckley isn’t news yet.’ ‘What do you mean ?’ said Woodhouse… ‘Mean ? By the grace of God, Master Ridley, I mean to have it so that when Huckley turns over in its sleep, Reuters and the Press Association jump out of bed to cable’…		This is from “The Village that Voted the Earth was Flat” in A Diversity of Creatures. A party of motorists has been fined and held up to ridicule by a local magistrate in the village of Huckley. Now they are having their revenge; one of them is a music-hall impresario, one an MP, and another the Editor of a national newspaper…