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A Freedom of Information request submitted by wealth manager Quilter and seen by this newspaper shows that the West Midlands recorded the second largest percentage growth in England, with 24 per cent more families paying inheritance tax than they did in the previous year.

in Orkney, no genetic cluster in England corresponds to the areas that were under Danish control for two centuries.

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