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Youngsters digitally 'walk' 500 miles to German twin town
celebrated 50 years of town twinning by renaming the front of Swinton Gateway to ‘Lünen Square’. Councillor Derek Antrobus, lead member for planning and sustainable development, who champions town twinning, said to walk to Lünen in reality would take 130 hours and include a ferry ride to Holland.He said: “Our twin towns links were born from the desire for peace after the Second World War and have remained strong for many decades.
