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A ‘one in a billion’ spherical egg that captivated the country is coming home… to Lambourn. The chicken egg was discovered by a woman from Ayr in Scotland, who found it in a box from her local Asda store. She got in touch with auction house Thomson Roddick Callan. They agreed to put the egg up for sale and alerted the national media, who ran the story. For the next part of our unlikely tale, we must go to The George in Lambourn, where one of the regulars, Ed Pownall, was enjoying a drink. He said: “I confess I may have had a couple of glasses of red wine when it occurred to me to put in a chee…