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Well done to Martha from Kings Norton Girls' School who created a video response to this problem:

I created a video about the distribution of religions in England based on this task, however changed the question about 'how it should be' to 'how it was 50 years ago' as this was more suitable.

You can watch Martha's video on YouTube.

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