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The fall out was beyond anything anyone could have predicted.
For weeks after the live broadcast, the museum was besieged with reporters from the national dailies as well as news stations from home and abroad.
The Trustees were out of their depth trying to cope with all the publicity and questions.
Bethan had been inundated with requests to go on morning television and magazine shows. And so she found herself sitting on countless sofas beside Bastian and Dulcie recounting the tale over and over again until even she was sick of hearing about it.
The world had turned its eye to the sleepy town of Plimpton Market, and, unlike most of these things, it wasn’t showing any sign of being a five-minute wonder.
Joey Dawson had made a big splash of things on the front page of The Echo with
