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British Widower in ‘Distress’ After Being Told by Local Council That He’s Dead

‘DO I LOOK DEAD TO YOU?’

Stuart Dobson, a very-much-alive septuagenarian, wrote back acidly that only his district “would write to a deceased person and ask them to fill in a Council Tax form.”

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