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It's all in the game for Deirdre

TORY hopeful Deirdre Alden publishes a website aimed at telling voters what she's up to in Edgbaston, where she will be a candidate in the next general election.

But Coun Alden, already a member of the city council, discovered she has a wide readership.

She says: "Following a post about a board games exhibition which will be coming to Edgbaston in the summer, I received an email from a gentleman in the Caribbean!

"His question was about how best to market a game which he'd invented - a bit outside the sphere of influence of a parliamentary candidate, but I was able to direct him to the organisers of the games exhibition who should know!"

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