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A public consultation has been launched on plans for a £600 million theme park in north Oxfordshire. Puy du Fou, which currently has a park in Les Epesses, France, and in Toledo, Spain, has ...

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We've seen Labubu dolls dressed up as devotees at a Taoist festival and a water dispenser containing holy water in a temple, but a Caucasian man being ordained as a Taoist priest? A 12-second TikTok ...