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The Advertiser has opened its archives to see what was making the news this week 25, 50 and 100 years ago. 25 years ago – February 5, 1999 ABOVE: Leading figures from Southwell Minster will swap their robes and cassocks for stage costumes to perform in Babes In The Wood – the first pantomime ever to be staged in the cathedral’s Great Hall. The pantomime stars the four minster vergers – Mr John Meredith (Little John) Mr Andrew Todd (Andy O’Dale) Mr Richard Legg (Dick Scarlet) and Mr David Richardson (Friar Tuck). The minster’s accounts officer, Louise Walker, will play the thigh-slapping Robin …

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