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Overdue library book was turned in 45 years late

In London,at the Dinnington Library, workers are used to people returning books late, but the book that got returned last month was very shocking. The book was Quatermass and the Pit by Nigel Kneale which had been checked on September 24 1965. "I thought at first it was just a normal return, until I saw the color of the pages: they were very brown around the edges.It's true that some people like to take their time with a good book, but 45 years is an incredible amount of time. " said Alison Lawrie, the Principal Library Assistant. The staff of Dinnington Lirbary believe that the book was borrowed from the old Dinnington Library which opened 1936. The person who borrowed this book can not be identified because records do not go back that far