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Article: READY, STEADY, SLOW! So did the Mail's entry for the World Snail-Racing Championships prove too slick for the opposition - or just bring a whole new meaning to the phrase 'at a snail's pace'?(News)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- July 20, 2009
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Byline: by David Leafe
FLASH and I have only just met, but I know we are going to make a great team. Yes, his personal hygiene could do with some improvement and he's not very talkative -- in fact, he really needs to come out of his shell. But he does have one irresistible feature: his membership of the species Helix Aspersa.
In other words, he is a common or garden snail. And in the small village of Congham in Norfolk, on this warm July afternoon, that makes him very sought-after indeed.
Aintree has the Grand National and Epsom the Derby, but Congham is home to that most thrilling of sports, the World Snail-Racing Championships.
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