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Samuel Hodgkins & Ryan Fahey

Dad clearing out room unearths amazing 40-year-old letter written by teen girl

A letter found by a dad clearing out a room of his home provides a fascinating glimpse into how Brits lived during the 1980s.

Carl Skivington found a letter from 1982 signed by Deborah Stokes, aged 14, after ripping out a cupboard in the box room of his home in Horninglow, Burton upon Trent in Staffordshire.

Carl was stunned as he read the letter, in which the writer tells how the president of the Soviet Union at the time, Leonid Brezhnev, had just died and how milk was just 20p per pint.

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