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WE SPENT our holiday on the oddly-shaped island of Hexonia. One day, we drove
around the coast road which was in the form of a hexagon with each angle
120°. I remember noticing that each straight was a different perfect square
whole number of kilometres and that the complete circuit was less than 500
kilometres.

How far did we drive?

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Cabinet reshuffle

Laura moved to the Home Office, Ken Etcher is the new Defence Secretary, and
the old Defence Secretary moved to Agriculture.