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MORE than 200 years ago, local legend Thomas Paine donated the profits from his most successful work to buy gloves for the rebel army in America.

Common Sense sold 500,000 copies in its first year alone and the money it raised helped the US to gain its independence.

And now a group of ladies in Thetford are paying tribute to him in the 200th anniversary of his death by donating 560 pairs of handmade gloves to charity.

Volunteers from the Knit and Knatter knitting group, based at the Ancient House Museum of Thetford Life, spent thousands of hours making the unique gloves......

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