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First straw houses go on sale in the UK

Andy Day

10th February 2015

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Flimsy? Fire-hazard? Gimmick? None of these, as the first straw-bale houses go on sale in the UK.

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Andy Day

Andy recently finished being a classroom geographer after 35 years at two schools in East Yorkshire as head of geography, head of the humanities faculty and director of the humanities specialism. He has written extensively about teaching and geography - with articles in the TES, Geography GCSE Wideworld and Teaching Geography.

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