Earlier this month, commemorative stamps also went on sale to mark the milestone.

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My country started collecting various-sized bits of Nineteen Eighty-Four like so many grim commemorative postage stamps.

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Banners hailing the congress have been put up in streets and commemorative postage stamps have been printed.

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Meanwhile, the SNP MSP for Kilmarnock and Loudoun, Willie Coffey, is to ask the Scottish banks, the Royal Mail, the Royal Mint and the Bank of England to issue commemorative notes, stamps and coins in Burns' honour.

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