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Article: British printing company produces calendar featuring traffic circles

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November 6, 2002
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Dateline: LONDON Other towns boast about their piers or grand civic buildings.

But a printing company creating a 2003 calendar for the unremarkable central English town of Redditch chose traffic circles _ and found it had a hit.

Critics derided the calendar, which features a fresh circle each month. But when comic Graham Norton featured it on his nightly show on Channel

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