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Old 08-11-2010, 12:33 AM
 
Location: Michigan
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Residents were celebrating today as work finally begun on replacing two lightbulbs, ending a three-year battle with a council who claim it will cost £8.000.

The Church Hall and the village green in picturesque Glemsford, near Sudbury, Suffolk, were plunged into darkness after two street lamps stopped working in 2007.



Read more: Lightbulb takes £8,000 (and three years) to change | Mail Online
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Old 08-11-2010, 02:52 AM
 
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