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Beaverbrook Newspapers Ltd. collected two stories 'The Day the Worm Turned' and 'Billy and the Beast' and published them as 'Stories of Billy the Bee from the Evening Standard by Harry Smith'.
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published at least two Billy The Bee stories from 13 August 1959 to sometime in 1960. The first story was 'Billy and the Dodo's Egg' which had appeared earlier in NEC and AEE.
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Billy also appeared in at least 2 Dutch compilation albums as Billy De Bij, published in the early 1960s.
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It also ran in a number of Scottish and provincial newspapers.
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