Though the answer I'm looking for is a number and there is a little calculation involved. There are no hard sums here and each step is fairly simple (except maybe the last two)
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Just un-jumble the letters, find some words, make sense of those words and work out what happened in the little story they tell.
Hint:
Align, Remove, Re-align, Search, Re-arrange, Solve.
Extra Hint:
There are 2 ways to "Re-align" only 1 will allow you to "Search" properly working out which is one of the (second) hardest parts of this puzzle.
Update (with hint):
Len has extracted the correct word search arrangement. Beware there are quite a few decoy words the have crept in purely by chance. Pay attention to the punctuation which is stuck to the beginning and ends of words.