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The By-pass
Jasmine was bored.
It always took so long to drive down to stay with Gran
and Grandad.
She twiddled with the car radio. Maybe she could find
a decent music channel. All she could find was talking.
Jasmine huffed and stared out of the window.
“Listen!” said Mum. “They’re talking about the new
by-pass. We’ll be on it in a minute.”
“I hope they’re not saying there’s been an accident
and there’s a queue a billion miles long,” said Jasmine.
Mum shook her head.
“No. Sounds like someone is interviewing the leader
of that environmental group. They were the people who
objected to this new road being built.”
Jasmine listened. The group had put up banners and
blockades. They had lain down in front of road building
machinery. They had lived in tents for months along the
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