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The magic of panto: Robin Hood at the Birmingham Hippodrome 'five stars!' - review

In the words of Noddy Holder, It’s Christmas! And that can only mean one thing, one of the biggest and the best pantomimes in the country opens, right here in the heart of the Midlands at the Birmingham Hippodrome.

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