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• The story of how this Batman got a crochet costume will melt your heart

  11-06-2018 23:56
  You will want to give your grandma a hug.
  
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• Salisbury poisoning: Charles and Camilla to visit city in show of support after nerve agent attack

  11-06-2018 22:20
  The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall are to visit Salisbury later this month to lend support to the Wiltshire city following a nerve agent attack.Businesses and local residents will have the chance to meet the royal couple in the city centre on 22 June, before the pair attend a reception for those playing an active role in helping Salisbury get back on its feet.Local leaders have been encouraging tourists and shoppers to return to Salisbury and they were helped when the Maltings shopping
  
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• UK government 'very seriously' examining Arron Banks' Russia links

  11-06-2018 22:10
  Home secretary Sajid Javid has said that Arron Banks’s Russian connections are being examined “very seriously” by two ministers in two departments who want to establish if there was an attempt to undermine parliamentary democracy during the Brexit campaign.Javid’s unexpected intervention came on the eve of what is expected to be a stormy select committee meeting in which the Brexit-backing tycoon and his colleague Andy Wigmore are expected to be questioned by MPs over the
  
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• Arron Banks' Russia links being examined 'very seriously' by UK

  11-06-2018 22:10
  Home secretary Sajid Javid has said that Arron Banks’s Russian connections are being examined “very seriously” by two ministers in two departments who want to establish if there was an attempt to undermine parliamentary democracy during the Brexit campaign.Javid’s unexpected intervention came on the eve of what is expected to be a stormy select committee meeting in which the Brexit-backing tycoon and his colleague Andy Wigmore are expected to be questioned by MPs over the
  
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• Bank of Chile trading down after hackers rob millions in cyberattack

  11-06-2018 21:45
  Shares in the Bank of Chilewere down on Monday after it confirmed hackers had siphoned off $10 million (£7.4 million) of its funds, mainly to Hong Kong, though the country's second-largest commercial bank said no client accounts had been impacted.Shares in the Bank of Chile, which is controlled by the Chilean Luksic family and Citigroup , were down 0.47 percent at 100.4 Chilean pesos ($.16) in mid-day trading.Bank CEO Eduardo Ebensperger told Chilean daily La Tercera in an interview on Sat
  
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• James O'Brien Laments His Own Radio Station After Nigel Farage Interview With Arron Banks

  11-06-2018 21:31
  Leave.EU co-founder Arron Banks has been given the opportunity to explain his
  
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• Hanger-on May is no more than a bit player at the G7 summit

  11-06-2018 20:54
  From left: Donald Tusk, Theresa May, Angela Merkel, Donald Trump, Justin Trudeau, Emmanuel Macron, Shinzo Abe, Giuseppe Conte and Jean-Claude Juncker. Photograph: China News Service/VCG via Getty Images
  
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• Back me on Brexit bill or undermine EU talks, May tells Tory MPs

  11-06-2018 20:41
  Theresa May has issued a final plea to Conservative Brexit rebels not to undermine her negotiating clout with Brussels by voting against the government on the EU withdrawal bill as it returns to the House of Commons on Tuesday.The prime minister faces a knife-edge result on an amendment to give parliament a meaningful vote on the final deal as Tory remainers threatened to support the change, brought in by peers, and Labour rallied all but its most pro-Brexit MPs behind it.Several leading Tory re
  
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• Martin Sorrell's WPP exit came amid bullying and sex worker allegations

  11-06-2018 20:37
  Sir Martin Sorrell resigned from WPP, the world’s largest advertising group, in April.Sir Martin Sorrell’s departure from the pinnacle of the advertising industry was triggered by staff claims that he had bullied junior employees, plus allegations the tycoon was spotted entering an address in a London red-light district.The account, which was published by the Financial Times on Monday, came a day after Sorrell “strenuously” denied paying for a sex worker using funds from
  
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• Pro-Brexit Labour MPs expose rift over EEA membership

  11-06-2018 20:28
  Gloria De Piero is one of the Labour MPs whose constituents voted to leave the EU.Labour’s divisions over Brexit have been exposed afresh, as MPs from leave constituencies hit back against the idea that membership of the European economic area (EEA) is the best outcome for Britain.Keir Starmer addressed a backbenchers’ meeting on Monday night, followed by what MPs described as a forceful display of unity from backbenchers and shadow ministers in support of the party’s official
  
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• May urges Conservative unity before parliament votes on Brexit strategy

  11-06-2018 20:24
  Prime Minister Theresa May urged her Conservative Party on Monday to show unity and vote against changes to her Brexit blueprint, warning lawmakers they would undermine her negotiation with the European Union.Lawmakers will vote on Tuesday and Wednesday this week on amendments to the EU withdrawal bill - legislation to sever ties with the bloc by essentially copying and pasting the bloc's laws so that Britain's legal system can function after March.Underlining the fear that pro-EU Conservative r
  
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• Protesters charged after pro-Tommy Robinson rally in London

  11-06-2018 19:54
  Demonstrators and police at a protest in central London sparked by jailing of Tommy Robinson.One man has been charged with possession of an offensive weapon and eight others bailed for a range of offences at a mass protest march in support of the jailed anti-Islam figurehead Tommy Robinson.Five police officers were injured during clashes between protesters and police at the demonstration in central London on Saturday, which observers estimated drew as many as 15,000 people.
  
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• British government looking for ways around customs amendment - minister

  11-06-2018 19:53
  LONDON (Reuters) - The British government is in talks with lawmakers to find a way around an amendment proposed by parliament's upper house which challenges Prime Minister Theresa May's refusal to pursue a customs union with the EU, a Brexit minister said on Monday.
  
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• PM admits 'candid, difficult' G7 summit

  11-06-2018 19:50
  PM admits 'candid, difficult' G7 summit
  
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• Profile: Isabel Oakeshott and the 'Bad Boys of Brexit'

  11-06-2018 19:48
  Isabel Oakeshott says she appreciated the significance of the emails when she revisited the material at the end of 2017.Isabel Oakeshott – a long-standing Brexit supporter who has close links to the Conservative donor Lord Ashcroft – has, by own her admission, been aware of emails linking Arron Banks to Russian officials and businessmen since the end of last year.“It was always my intention to publish this information,” Oakeshott has insisted, in the face of accusations s
  
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• London youths who made 'drill music' jailed for planning gang attack

  11-06-2018 19:40
  Five London gang members who made 'drill music', a niche form of hip-hop that glorifies violence and has been linked by police to a surge in knife crime, received jail sentences on Monday for planning an attack on a rival gang.The young men from the Notting Hill area of west London, aged between 17 and 21, were arrested last November armed with machetes, baseball bats, masks, balaclavas and gloves.The court was shown seven drill music videos, which prosecutors said demonstrated how the group had
  
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• Theresa May admits 'candid and difficult' G7 summit after Donald Trump row

  11-06-2018 19:39
  Theresa May has admitted a "difficult" G7 summit - marked by Donald Trump tearing up a joint agreement and lashing out at other leaders - saw "very candid discussions".The prime minister gave some hint of the tensions on show at the gathering in Canada last week as she revealed leaders expressed "deep disappointment" at the US president's decision to slap tariffs on steel and aluminium imports.Updating the House of Commons on the G7 summit on her return from Canada, Mrs May said: "This was a dif
  
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• Nine British teenagers hurt in Germany bus crash

  11-06-2018 19:38
  Police say it is not immediately clear what caused the man to veer into oncoming traffic.Nine British teenagers have been hurt in a head-on crash between a bus and a car in south-west Germany that also left the two drivers with serious injuries, local emergency services have said.A 90-year-old man lost control of his car and hit the double-decker bus, which was carrying 73 students aged 13-15, six adult supervisors and two drivers, a spokeswoman for the Tuttlingen police force said.
  
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• May urges Conservative unity before parliament votes

  11-06-2018 19:13
  British Prime Minister Theresa May urged her Conservative Party on Monday to show unity and vote against changes to her Brexit blueprint, warning lawmakers they would undermine her negotiation with the European Union.Lawmakers will vote on Tuesday and Wednesday this week on amendments to the EU withdrawal bill, legislation to sever ties with the bloc by essentially copying and pasting the bloc's laws so that Britain's legal system can function after March.Underlining the fear that Conservative r
  
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• Factbox - Britain's Brexit plan faces parliamentary test: what to expect

  11-06-2018 19:13
  The government is most vulnerable over an amendment, introduced by the House of Lords to change the so-called "meaningful vote" on any final Brexit deal by handing the lower house more power to set the "direction" of the government if it rejects the agreement.The government opposes this amendment.This amendment would remove the legal date of Brexit - 29 March, 2019 - to let ministers change the date at the last minute if they don't have a deal.
  
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• Let’s have the full Brexit for political and economic renewal

  11-06-2018 19:02
  ‘Labour MPs should support both Keir Starmer’s proposal and the House of Lords amendment to rejoin the EEA: they are not contradictory,’ writes Eric Goodyer.Two years later, government and opposition are together trying to ensure that as much control as possible stays with the European Union.
  
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• Paul Dacre is a very great man and newspaperman of genius

  11-06-2018 19:01
  Could I correct a couple of points in Polly Toynbee’s extraordinarily mendacious article about the Daily Mail (Bully-in-chief Dacre is off.As someone who has knocked around a few newsrooms, let me assure you that there is less “racism, homophobia and philistinism” – to quote Toynbee – at the Daily Mail than at many of the other places I have known.Paul Dacre is a very great man and a newspaperman of genius who has done as much to improve the quality of life in Brita
  
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• Mary Wilson upset by undressed nurses

  11-06-2018 19:01
  Former British prime minister Harold Wilson with his wife, Mary. Photograph: ITV/Rex/Shutterstock
  
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• Banning ads is not the best way to protect gamblers

  11-06-2018 19:01
  Many people within the gambling industry would agree with one contention in your editorial (Live gambling ads during sporting events are a sure bet against the vulnerable,9 June): that there is too much advertising of gambling products around live sport.The more intractable question you don’t address is what to do about it, given the significant dependence that certain national broadcasters and sports have on the revenue derived from gambling advertising, and the anti-trust law restriction
  
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• Nigel Farage wary of new Ukip leader's hard-right stance

  11-06-2018 18:45
  Nigel Farage has not openly criticised Gerard Batten, but said being seen as opposing all Islam is a mistake.Senior Ukip figures including Nigel Farage have expressed disquiet at the hard-right direction chosen for the party by its leader, Gerard Batten, and his open support for the jailed anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson.While Farage did not openly criticise Batten, the former party leader told a meeting of Ukip activists that being seen as opposing all Islam and backing Robinson was a politi
  
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• After 'difficult' G7 summit, May warns against unilateral action on trade

  11-06-2018 18:39
  Prime Minister Theresa May said on Monday that a meeting of the Group of Seven leaders in Canada had been "difficult" and that countries had to avoid taking unilateral action in order to protect the global trading system.Trump has slapped import tariffs on metals, saying he has to protect American jobs against what he says is unfair competition.
  
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• Prince William to meet Netanyahu, Abbas on landmark Middle East trip

  11-06-2018 18:33
  Britain's Prince William will meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas when he makes a landmark trip to the region later this month, his office said on Monday.William, Queen Elizabeth's grandson and second-in-line to the British throne, is the first senior British royal to pay an official visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories.While the trip is at the behest of the British government, the prince's Communications Secretary Jason Knauf said su
  
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• Park Lane Hilton Nightclub Accused Of Racism For 'Charging Black Women Double Entry Price'

  11-06-2018 18:24
  A London nightclub which allegedly charged black customers double what it
  
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• Hospice staff ‘trained to report dying patients as part of terror strategy’

  11-06-2018 18:21
  Prevent counter-terrorism trainers have worked in hospices as well as across the NHS.Doctors and nurses are being trained to monitor terminally ill people and dementia patients and their visitors for signs of radicalisation as part of the government’s Prevent scheme, the Guardian has learned.A senior NHS whistleblower who works on the programme said that its operations in the health system were so indiscriminate that she had carried out the training in hospices and said that she knew of ot
  
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• Aquarius Could Run Out Of Water And Supplies Despite Spain's Offer Of Help

  11-06-2018 18:20
  The fate of more than 600 migrants stranded on a ship in the Mediterranean is
  
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• Theresa May 'will always regret' not meeting Grenfell residents

  11-06-2018 18:12
  Theresa May says she "will always regret" not meeting the survivors of Grenfell Tower the day after the tragic fire, as she admitted it gave the impression she didn't care.Ahead of the one year anniversary of the disaster this week, the prime minister has addressed her much-criticised initial response to the tragedy, which claimed the lives of 72 people.In the hours after the blaze, the prime minister visited the west London tower block but only met emergency workers.
  
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• 'I'll be broke if I live to 100'

  11-06-2018 18:07 via bbc.co.uk
  Many older people are now paying for their own social care and say they'll be left short when the cash runs out.
  
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• Mother of epileptic boy will not get confiscated cannabis oil back

  11-06-2018 18:06
  Charlotte Caldwell and her son Billy at Heathrow, where the cannabis oil was taken by customs officers.The mother of a boy who has up to 100 epileptic fits a day has been told by a government minister that potentially life-saving cannabis oil confiscated from her at Heathrow will not be returned.Charlotte Caldwell was not cautioned when she was stopped by customs officers trying to “openly smuggle” the substance into the UK from Toronto.
  
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• Police resume search for Manchester Arena attacker's suitcase

  11-06-2018 18:05
  Salman Abedi carries a distinctive blue suitcase in Manchester city centre before he carried out the bombing last year.Police investigating the Manchester Arena attack have resumed their search for a suitcase used by the bomber in the days and hours leading up to the atrocity.Salman Abedi, the British-Libyan man who carried out the attack, was seen on CCTV wheeling a shiny blue case around Manchester in the days before he detonated his suicide bomb, killing himself and 22 others last year.
  
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• Tory remainers yet to be convinced over EU withdrawal bill

  11-06-2018 18:02
  Tory rebel remainers have warned Theresa May that her changes to the EU withdrawal bill before its return to the House of Commons this week do not go far enough to head off a revolt.The Conservative MPs told the Guardian that they are not yet satisfied with some of the changes to the legislation despite senior government figures saying they were confident of getting them through.The prime minister is to urge her backbench MPs at the 1922 Committee on Monday evening to send a message of unity ove
  
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• These amazing medical tales prove first responders are real-life superheroes

  11-06-2018 18:02
  Her coffee was passed to a man next to her, a look shared and she was off.
  
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• May says Russia must change before it returns to G8

  11-06-2018 17:56
  LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May said Russia would not be invited back to join the Group of Seven nations until it stops interfering in the affairs of other countries, rebuffing calls from U.S. President Donald Trump for Moscow to return to group.
  
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• Mayor Khan says booming tech sector to help London through Brexit

  11-06-2018 17:53
  London's status as Europe's leading hub for the tech sector will help it weather Brexit despite the best efforts of Paris, Berlin and others to compete, the British capital's mayor Sadiq Khan said on Monday.Britain has for years been the top European destination for foreign investment, but a survey by accountancy group Ernst & Young (E&Y) on Monday showed Germany and France closing the gap.According to 450 global investors surveyed by E&Y, Germany was considered the most attractive p
  
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• Boys do more exercise than girls, research finds

  11-06-2018 17:41
  Adolescent girls and young women are less likely to engage in heart-rate raising recreational activities than their male peers, and when they do keep at it for shorter periods of time, research has revealed.Current guidelines in the UK and US recommend that children and teens undertake at least an hour of moderate or vigorous physical activity a day, with adults advised to aim for 150 minutes a week.Dr Charlene Wong, co-author of the research from Duke University in North Carolina, said the rese
  
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• Charlotte Caldwell's medicinal cannabis oil for her epileptic son confiscated at Heathrow

  11-06-2018 16:43
  A mother who had cannabis oil taken from her as she arrived at Heathrow airport has vowed to "get more" to save her son.Charlotte Caldwell was attempting to bring the drug into the UK for her severely epileptic child when she had it confiscated by customs officers in London after a flight from Canada.Billy, from County Tyrone in Northern Ireland, suffers serious fits and Ms Caldwell is worried the cycle of seizures "will eventually kill him".
  
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• Vodafone stake in Africa cut by black empowerment deal

  11-06-2018 16:28
  Vodafone stake in Africa cut by black empowerment deal
  
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• Jaguar Land Rover moves Discovery production to Slovakia

  11-06-2018 16:27
  Britain's biggest carmaker, which is owned by India's Tata Motors, said production will be moved early next year.In 2016, the company said it would produce Discovery models in Slovakia."The decision to move the Land Rover Discovery to Slovakia and the potential losses of some agency employed staff in the U.K. is a tough one but forms part of our long-term manufacturing strategy as we transform our business globally," Jaguar Land Rover said in a statement.
  
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• Police search Bury tip for Manchester Arena bomber's suitcase

  11-06-2018 16:26
  Police are searching a landfill site as part of the investigation into the Manchester Arena bombing.Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said officers were at a tip in Bury as they try to locate a blue suitcase used by suicide bomber Salman Abedi.Twenty two people were killed and hundreds injured when Abedi detonated explosives after an Ariana Grande concert at the arena in May last year.
  
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• UK should allow more working holiday visas, says Tory thinktank

  11-06-2018 16:18
  The thinktank says the visa should be rebranded as the ‘citizens of the world visa programme’.The government should expand the number of countries whose citizens are eligible to apply for a working holiday visa to the UK, a Conservative thinktank has said.The tier-5 youth mobility visa allows people aged 18-30 to live, work or study in the UK for two years.
  
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• Rolls-Royce warns of engine issues as it readies job cuts

  11-06-2018 16:13
  Rolls-Royce has warned it has identified more problems with its engines that have forced airlines to ground and lease replacement planes.Rolls-Royce has been struggling to get on top of problems with its Trent 1000 engines.The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which is the civil aviation watchdog in the United States, warned operators of the 787 to fly within 60 minutes of an airport in case of an emergency.
  
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• Polish man gets 16 years for kidnapping British model Chloe Ayling

  11-06-2018 16:10
  A Polish man has been found guilty and sentenced to 16 years in jail for kidnapping a British model in Italy.Lukasz Herba held Chloe Ayling captive for six days in a farmhouse near Turin in the Piedmont region, after abducting her during what she thought would be a photo shoot last July.After her release Ms Ayling said she was taken after turning up at a property in Milan for a modelling job.
  
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• This criminal was such a novice that the bemused cops gave him ‘advice’

  11-06-2018 15:46
  Cops were left shaking their heads after this turn of events.
  
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• Ed Sheeran puts chapel construction on hold to check for great crested newts

  11-06-2018 15:46
  Ed Sheeran's plans to build a private chapel on his estate have been put on hold so that a search for great crested newts can take place.The singer-songwriter, 27, has been forced to commission experts to check for the protected amphibians on his land in East Anglia before continuing with the construction.Sheeran, who announced his engagement to long-term girlfriend Cherry Seaborn in January, has submitted a planning application for a Saxon-style chapel structure to Suffolk Coastal District Coun
  
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• UK police search landfill site for Manchester Arena bomber's suitcase

  11-06-2018 15:45
  Police investigating the 2017 suicide bomb attack on Manchester Arena which killed 22 people said on Monday they were searching for a suitcase in a landfill site in Bury, northern England, as part of their inquiries."Officers are currently carrying out a follow-up search at a landfill site in Bury in relation to the ongoing investigation into the arena attack," a spokeswoman for Greater Manchester Police said.The spokeswoman said the search in Bury, 8 miles north of Manchester, was in connection
  
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• Robbie Williams to perform at World Cup in Russia despite 2016 song controversy

  11-06-2018 15:44
  Robbie Williams will perform at the World Cup opening ceremony in Moscow, two years after his controversial song about Russia sparked anger in the country.The pop star will entertain the crowd before the football tournament's opening match between Russia and Saudi Arabia on Thursday.It comes after Williams was forced to deny his 2016 song Party Like A Russian included derogatory references to Russian president Vladimir Putin.
  
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