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Colin Sheridan: An absentee landlord presiding over tainted tap water still a real thing here

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Colin Sheridan: An absentee landlord presiding over tainted tap water still a real thing here

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, the 10th Earl of Shaftesbury, was murdered in November 2004. File photo : Sussex Police/PA

Up until very recently, I did not know that the Earl of Shaftesbury was a real thing. An actual person and a title with a house that has a seat, no less. 

That seat resides at a place called St Giles which is located at Wimborne, in East Dorset in good old England. St Giles has a good aspect and road frontage. It also boasts a garden of 5,500 acres.

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