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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Claire Donnelly

True story of The Gallows Pole and real life Robin Hood who robbed rich to save town

In a quiet edge of a hilltop graveyard, a couple are picking their way among the ancient headstones, eyes down, carefully searching.

Finding the place they are looking for, they stop and kneel to lay a handful of coins on a flat, weathered grave.

It's a strange scene but one all too familiar to residents in the historic village of Heptonstall, West Yorks.

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