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Ready, steady, flip! The Olney Pancake Race
The Buckinghamshire town of Olney is home to the world’s ‘oldest’ pancake race.
First held in 1445, the women-only race was revived in 1948 and has become an event that now has worldwide attention.
Paul Joslin hears about this most English of traditions.
(Photo credit: Hulton Deutsch/Getty)
