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Photo story: in a flap

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18 August 2023

Mark Passmore/Apex

Mark Passmore/ApexMark Passmore/ApexAudrey, the Exeter Cathedral cat, who lives with the cathedral’s director of music, Timothy Noon, emerges from what is said to be the world’s oldest cat flap. Archives from 1305 record payments to a church cat to supplement a diet of mice and rats, and a hole was cut in the door to the 15th-century astronomical clock to allow the cats access

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