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From: Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England) | Date: April 18, 2005 | Copyright information

Byline: Andrew Jackson ,

A former Huddersfield New College student is celebrating the publication of his first novel.

Simon Young (right), 32, studied at New College for two years during the 1990s and has written AD 500: A Journey Through the Dark Isles of Britain and Ireland.

Simon, who left New College to complete a degree in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at Cambridge University, said: "The book itself is a madcap Bill Bryson-style wander around ...

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