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Dear Millers — it’s been quite a week for us. On Tuesday morning, 15,000 copies of our special one-off print edition arrived, and we’ve been frantically distributing them ever since. That’s why we’re coming to you so late tonight — apologies for that. The edition contains some of our favourite stories from the past 18 months, plus a new long read by Joshi about Sir Richard Leese (which hasn’t gone out in a newsletter yet) and a very funny new cartoon by Tony Husband.

Our Christmas concert at St Ann’s is tomorrow night! It’s going to be a wonderful event. A few members have had to pull out because they are self-isolating, so we have a handful of free tickets — if you’d like one of those, email joshi@manchestermill.co.uk. Or if you’d like to buy one using the normal route, they are here.