1. Holiday & Events

Fangtastic | In focus: Halloween

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Halloween grows in popularity every year, and it’s a particularly lucrative event as it spans the generations, with adults and children all partying. Celebrated on 31 October, Halloween is when the streets come alive with children in fancy dress ‘trick or treating’. Most people opt…

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