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Epic trek for reindeer entrepreneur

ENGLAND: The owner of a rent-a-reindeer business is driving over 4,800km to the Arctic Circle and back to boost his herd in the run-up to Christmas.

George Richardson, 42, is taking his powerful Mitsubishi 4x4 and the largest towable cattle trailer he can pull and bringing back 10 females and two bulls from northern Norway to his site in the appropriately-named Cold Hesledon in Durham.