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Good morning, sweet Times reader, and we begin with a story that, seemingly, epitomises peevish corporate ingratitude. Some weeks ago, a German man – referred to, with pleasing mystery, as “Anouar G” – found a lost cheque at Frankfurt railway station. On picking it up, he was astonished – the news reports don’t actually say he was astonished, but he definitely would have been – to see the cheque was made out to the sweet manufacturer Haribo (not astonishing) for the sum of €4.5 million (the astonishing bit).
An honest, albeit astonished, man, Anouar G contacted Haribo about the cheque – and, to reward his honesty, Haribo sent him a gift – six bags of Haribo. Not even the big ones, either. The ones by
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