Having unearthed, among others, a steamy TV soap, a beer brewed with elderflower, a seat-of-the-pants cargo airline, a historical romance, a Caribbean calypso band and a whodunnit movie, the choice was narrowing.

Discounting all those restaurants and hotels that have borrowed our parent weekly paper’s name, it was a toss-up between an oriental products shop and a park with stables.

On the one hand was the allure of 3,000 shiny Asian knick-knacks and pungent spices to be browsed at Tradewinds Oriental Shop in Scunthorpe.

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