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Wednesday, 18 January 2012
Apostrophe Overboard
'Bradleys' might be considered adjectival and therefore exempt, but 'headlands' is not:
(Personally, I'd put a comma between 'location' and 'providing' as well, but that is a matter of taste, I suppose).
It's geographical names board policy to discourage use of the apostrophe (http://goo.gl/WNNoh)
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