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Saluting a century of very good Scouts (UK)

For the past five days, it has been an extraordinary international celebration of youth and goodwill.

A rainbow of uniforms and flags has come together in a tented city as thousands of Scouts from more than 160 nations have marked the centenary of their movement.

A 100 years after Lt Gen Robert Baden-Powell founded the Scouts with an experimental camp of just 20 boys, 40,000 of their successors have descended on his native country for a two-week jamboree remembering him and his organisation.
Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)