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Alan Burnside

Did you hear the one about security forces being banned from Xtra-vision? #20yearrule

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on December 31, 2016, 9:01 am | Readers 800

Alan Burnside wrote to Richard Needham in 1990 on behalf of video chain Xtra-vision to ask him to find out whether the security forces were banned from their stores. There wasn’t a ban, just a difficulty in specifying “employer” on the membership form.

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