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How another unsuspecting family was almost destroyed by a toxic meal: Award-winning author accidentally poisoned his relatives with foraged mushrooms - with disastrous consequences

Nicholas Evans was staying at his brother-in-law's 13,000-acre estate Altyre House in Scotland in the summer of 2008, when he decided to pick a crop of mushrooms to rustle up a meal.

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