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1. A local supermarket was having a sale of bottles of champagne costing £23 each and of bottles of red wine costing £17 each. The total value of items in the sale was £619. On Valentine’s Day, five bottles of champagne and half of the red wine bottles were sold. If the total value of the remaining items was now £436, how many bottles of champagne had been in the sale to begin with? 2. What connects bolt, coal and swallow? 3. Which 2018 British Winter Olympian may make GUARDSMEN WAVER? 4. Which is the odd one out: berm, terminus, swash zone, wrack line? 5. Re-arrange the letter groups to make three words that precede cake: MAS TEN COL HAM TOT ATE CHR CHO IST.