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    Testing Ground
    Testing Ground
    Testing Ground
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    Testing Ground

    By Lee Isserow

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    Skelmersdale has always been a testing ground for pilot schemes.
    Nathaniel Myra innocently visits to investigate how the latest trial is going, but discovers that all is not as it seems in the quiet, dull town...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLee Isserow
    Release dateApr 20, 2016
    ISBN9781311504913
    Testing Ground
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    Lee Isserow

    Lee Isserow is an award-winning comedy writer and filmmaker, with over fifteen years spent trawling the back streets and dark alleys of the entertainment industry. He's pretty sure he has some traits of autism, because he's been constantly working and obscenely prolific for the entire duration, writing over a hundred screenplays, many of which he's adapting into forthcoming books, because very few people are willing to turn them into movies. For now. He lives in Liverpool, England because he accidentally bought a house there. He's not quite sure how that happened - but assumes part of that is because he used to drink a lot.

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      Skelmersdale had always been colloquially referred to as Britain's Testing Ground. That's not entirely accurate, it was locally known by the names Skem, Skum, or That shithole you drive through to get to the M6. It was the site on which Britain ran pilot schemes to prove their worth. Where traffic calming measures had been tested; from lights to bumps, roundabouts to speed limits. Before the government took a measure nationwide, they would test it in Skelmersdale. The townspeople embraced progress, even if all the neighbouring towns considered them backwards because they'd sometimes marry their cousins by accident.

      Whilst the tests of the seventies were focussed on the roads, the eighties

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