Nibble, Nosh and Gnasher

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Nibble, Nosh an nasher

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In the furthest, most-deserted sector of space, a colossal ball of garbage floated in the darkness.

Everything horrible that you could ever imagine was glued together with piles of toxic, slimy goo!

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The Galaxy Express was running late, so it took a shortcut.

Squish! Squash! Splat! The spaceship piled into the massive gloopy wreck of rubbish.

“The steering wheel is stuck!” cried the commander of the Galaxy Express.

The ship is out of control!

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Not far away, the Clean Team were hard at work.

Nosh, Gnasher and Nibble were crunching scraps of antique rockets and burnt-out shooting stars that had fallen on Knick-Knack, the little planet they called home.

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Nibble got an urgent message. “It’s an emergency,” she told Nosh and Gnasher.

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“Help! The Galaxy Express needs an extreme clean. It’s out of control and heading your way. You have 958 space seconds until it crashes into your planet!”

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“Quick! Call a space taxi,” Nibble cried. “We have to stop this catastrophe!”

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