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Oct 2021
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The lion in the London black cab: the re...

The Guardian
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Gifted as a cub by a maharajah to a young British boy, Singh lived at a house in Surrey before outgrowing his home and being driven in a black cab to the zoo. Head of news, Mike Ticher, recommends this surprising story by Ben Doherty 
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