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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Lee Grimsditch

Where KES the Kid Eating Snake loved by 1980s shoppers is now

The fate of an unusual but striking presence in a Merseyside shopping centre that made parents lives easier has been the topic of speculation through the years.

KES, which stood for Kid Eating Snake, was the name of a much loved fixture at the Hardshaw shopping centre in St Helens in the 1980s and 1990s.

Local shoppers reminise about KES, the much loved serpent, who provided a welcome distraction for their children as they went about their business.

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