xotGD
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DaleCooper
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That is not one of the two.
CarltonA
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Welford?
DaleCooper
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No, neither of the possible answers are active RAF stations.
Gloster
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Stansted?
DaleCooper
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No
I've just realised that what I thought was two claims for the site of the concert was just my misunderstanding of a website so there is just one answer.
DaleCooper
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D6130
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Silverstone?
DaleCooper
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Wrong end of Northamptonshire.
DaleCooper
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As there haven't been any more guesses for 24 hours I'd better tell you that the answer is RAF King's Cliffe.
Open floor...
Open floor...
Peter Mugridge
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Let's try something that is hopefully easier:
There were two very well known businessmen in partnership during the 1970s to the 1990s. Both were enobled.
First, they set up a greetings card business which bore their names.
After they sold it, it retained their names and they then set up a holding company which became one of the biggest and most successful in the world; it was broken up ahead of the longer lived one of them retiring in the late 1990s..
Who were they?
There were two very well known businessmen in partnership during the 1970s to the 1990s. Both were enobled.
First, they set up a greetings card business which bore their names.
After they sold it, it retained their names and they then set up a holding company which became one of the biggest and most successful in the world; it was broken up ahead of the longer lived one of them retiring in the late 1990s..
Who were they?
xotGD
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Mr Moon and Mr Pig
Peter Mugridge
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Ha ha no, but nice one.
D6130
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Mr Clinton and Mr Cards?
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Mr Funky and Mr Pigeon?
Peter Mugridge
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None of those.
Clue: One of the surnames, by coincidence, matches that of a recent railway company.
Clue: One of the surnames, by coincidence, matches that of a recent railway company.
D6130
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Signor Serco and Signor Abellio? 
Peter Mugridge
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Another clue... the card brand is still going.
Mr Lumo?
Peter Mugridge
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Everyone has so far named just about every card company except the one in question - and have imaginatively invented quite a few more...
Think of the company name recently associated with a class 50 for the first name...
...and think also of a very well known railway boss for the second name.
Think of the company name recently associated with a class 50 for the first name...
...and think also of a very well known railway boss for the second name.
D6130
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Hallmark?
Peter Mugridge
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You've got the first two letters right, but remember we are looking for a company with two names as the name...
D6130
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Hanson and ????
Peter Mugridge
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Yes... but what's the second part of the name...?
D6130
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The rail operating company is called 'Hanson & Hall'.....but I'm b*****d if I can remember the second name of the greeting card company!
Peter Mugridge
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Further clue... there's also a senior snooker player with the same surname as the high profile railway boss - whose empire reaches London...The rail operating company is called 'Hanson & Hall'.....but I'm b*****d if I can remember the second name of the greeting card company!
