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Coach tickets for next year's extravaganza went on sale last night, and were all snapped up in just 30 minutes.

Parents of young children are often spooked by the risks of last-minute Halloween costume shopping: wait too long and the costumes-of-the-moment may be all snapped up.

There is currently a six-month wait period for tests in the Thames Valley and each batch of new appointments is snapped up within minutes.

Even during her ill-fated "indie years", fans snapped up experimental and wayward songs like Confide In Me and the Nick Cave duet Where The Wild Roses Grow.

Now, it's just kicked off a national tour in Queeley-Dennis's home city - which looms large in the story - and has been snapped up by a TV production company headed by Peaky Blinders mastermind Steven Knight.