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09:03 UK time, Friday, 2 January 2009

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"This is why we moved to Settle. The shop would have been cleaned out in two-and-a-half minutes in Bolton" - Comment placed in honesty box in hardware shop unmanned on Boxing Day

Tom Algie wanted Boxing Day off from his hardware shop in Settle, North Yorkshire, but so did his staff. His answer was to leave the shop open and a note appealing for customers to leave the right money in an honesty box. He took £187.66, with no evidence of pinching, he said. And of course he got a bit of free publicity.

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