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Unite joint leaders Tony Woodley and Derek Simpson voice their support for strikers

Talks aimed at solving the BA cabin crew dispute have been adjourned.

The airline's chief executive Willie Walsh met the joint leaders of the Unite union, which represents BA cabin crew, in a new bid to reach agreement.

The two sides held talks for over six hours and they are expected to resume negotiations on Friday. Earlier, Unite joint leader Tony Woodley said "it will not be easy" to reach a settlement.

A total of 246 flights in and out of Heathrow were cancelled on Wednesday.

On Tuesday, more than 200 flights were cancelled, though BA maintained that it was meeting its target of flying 70% of passengers to their destinations.

BA said it was increasing its flight schedule for Unite's next threatened five-day strike, which – should no deal emerge from this latest set of negotiatons – is due to start on Monday.

The next five-day strike is due to start on Monday

The carrier said throughout this strike it would be operating more than 70% of long-haul flights from Heathrow and more than 55% of short-haul flights.

Mr Woodley said Saturday's meeting was the first time that he "genuinely thought there was a bit of effort going in to settle this".

He also called for BA to restore travel concessions to workers who had previously gone on strike.

BA's chief executive Willie Walsh has previously expressed his frustration that agreements reached with Unite's leadership have been rejected by the Bassa arm of the union, which directly represents BA cabin crew.

As well as the new talks, BA has warned it is planning for a full hearing on the legality of the strike, despite a court ruling in favour of Unite last week.

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Mrs Clinton pledged US support

The South Korean navy is reported to be conducting a major anti-submarine drill, amid renewed tensions with North Korea over the sinking of a southern navy ship in March.

The South Korean news agency, Yonhap,says 10 warships are taking part in the drill. Anti-submarine depth charges and naval guns are being tested.

An international investigation last week found that the South Korean ship, the Cheonan, was sunk by a torpedo from the North, but this has been denied by Pyongyang.

Show of strength

South Korea's one-day submarine exercise, taking place off the west coast town of Taean, follows the sighting of South Korean K1 tanks on Tuesday conducting an exercise to prepare for a possible surprise attack by North Korea.

South Korea's close ally, the United States, has said it intends to hold large-scale military exercises between its troops stationed in South Korea, and the South Korean armed forces. It has not yet announced a date.

Analysts have said none of the states involved want to escalate military tensions, but South Korea and its allies want to find a way to restrain the North and prevent it from conducting further attacks.

North Korea denies any involvement in the sinking of the Cheonan.

Response

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who has just visited the region, said the international community must respond in the growing crisis over the sinking of a South Korean warship.

She said there was "overwhelming" evidence that North Korea was to blame, and urged Pyongyang to halt its "policy of belligerence".

"This was an unacceptable provocation by North Korea and the international community has a responsibility and a duty to respond," Mrs Clinton said.

She also urged China, a close friend of North Korea, to stand firmly with the international community on the issue.

Analysts have predicted China will refrain from publicly chastising the North but could seek a discreet way to communicate widespread concerns to the North.

China's new ambassador to Britain has said his country's top priority at present is to avoid a violent conflict between North and South Korea, and guarantee stability in the region.

SINKING OF CHEONAN – KEY DATESContinue reading the main storyMarch 26:Explosion hits naval corvette near disputed maritime border,killing 46 on boardMay 20: Independentinvestigators produce proof North Korean torpedo struck vesselMay 24:South Korea declares trade with North frozen, demands apologyMay 25: North Korea announces it is severing all ties with SouthKorean propaganda fightHow South Korean ship was sunkQ&A: Cheonan sinkingTimeline: North Korean attacks

"I believe that the Chinese understand the seriousness of this issue and are willing to listen to the concerns expressed by both South Korea and the United States," Mrs Clinton said on Wednesday.

"We expect to be working with China as we move forward in fashioning a response."

South Korea has meanwhile announced a package of measures, including a halt to most trade. It is also seeking action via the United Nations Security Council.

North Korea announced late on Tuesday that it was cutting all ties with the South. It has also banned South Korean ships and planes from its territory.

It has said it will close the last road link between North and South if South Korean loudspeaker broadcasts resume.

Chinese Vice-Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun earlier said his country was still evaluating information on the sinking of the Cheonan.

With tensions rising rapidly, the North has reacted angrily to trade and shipping sanctions announced by the South.

The two states are technically still at war after the Korean conflict ended without a peace treaty in 1953.

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The women’s disappearances are being treated as murder

A 40-year-old man, thought to be a Phd criminology student, is being questioned about the murders of three women sex workers in Bradford.

Stephen Griffiths was arrested on suspicion of killing Suzanne Blamires, 36, who was last seen on Friday.

He is also suspected of killing Shelley Armitage, 31, and Susan Rushworth, 43.

CCTV footage is understood to be playing a major part in the investigation by West Yorkshire Police.

Detectives have been granted extra time, until Thursday evening, to question the suspect who was arrested at an address in Bradford on Monday.

Officers, accompanied by specially trained sniffer dog teams, have been searching a number of buildings, some of them in the Chain Street area of Bradford's red light district.

Police are expected later to formally name the woman whose body parts were found at about 1400 BST on Tuesday in the River Aire in Shipley.

Two sex workers tell BBC News they feel “nervous and frightened”

She is expected to be confirmed as Ms Blamires who lived on Barkston Walk, Allerton in Bradford.

Ms Armitage, also from Allerton, has been missing since 26 April and Ms Rushworth, from the Manningham area of the city, has not been seen since June 2009.

Police are also investigating possible links to the case of Rebecca Hall, a 19-year-old who worked as a prostitute in the city and was killed in 2001.

Her body was found in the Allerton area not far from the homes of Ms Blamires and Ms Armitage.

Assistant Chief Constable Jawaid Akhtar confirmed the remains found on Tuesday belonged to one person.

He described the investigation as a "thorough and painstaking inquiry into three missing people who are sex workers, with all the necessary resources and expertise devoted to it".

He added: "The families of Suzanne, Shelley and Susan are all being supported by our family liaison officers as the inquiry progresses."

Earlier this month West Yorkshire Police started a poster appeal to try to trace Ms Armitage who was last seen in Rebecca Street in Bradford city centre.

Police underwater search teams have been scouring the river

At the time detectives described her as "a much-loved daughter and sister" and said her family were growing increasingly concerned for her welfare.

Ms Rushworth, a mother-of-three who is known as Sue or Susie, was last seen near her flat at Oak Villas, Manningham.

At the time of her disappearance police said she suffered from epilepsy, had never been missing before and had been getting help for her heroin addiction.

Ms Rushworth's son James, 23, appealed for information, saying: "We are all very worried about her.

"We're a close family and we're not coping very well with her disappearance.

"There is no reason that she would have just left. She's only recently started seeing her grandchildren and was getting to know them."

Mario Demski who works at a residential home on Oak Villas, said Ms Rushworth had visited several residents at the home.

"She lived just over the road. Residents have recognised her face in the paper and been very concerned."

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Residents in the North Yorkshire constituency of Thirsk and Malton are finally getting their chance to vote in the general election.

The ballot was delayed due to the death last month of UKIP candidate John Boakes, from Kirby Knowle, near Northallerton.

Mr Boakes' death was the eighth during an election campaign since 1918.

Polling stations will be open from 0700 BST until 2200 BST on Thursday.

The candidates in Thirsk and Malton are: Liberal Party: John Clark; UK Independence Party: Toby Horton; Liberal Democrat: Howard Keal; Conservative: Anne McIntosh; Labour: Jonathan Roberts.

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North Tyneside council has been criticised for "wrongly" barring a man from council meetings.

A Local Government Ombudsman report said public law principles were not considered or applied when the decision was made in October 2008.

The law demands council meetings are open to the public unless confidential.

The council accepted appropriate measures were not followed and said it would apologise to the man involved.

The Ombudsman report found "maladministration causing injustice" after investigating a complaint by "Mr H", who cannot be named for legal reasons.

According to the report a council officer told Mr H he was barred from attending meetings of the council, its committees, sub-committees and panels.

‘Improper motives’

And, if he attempted to attend any meetings, council staff would call the police to have him removed.

The investigation found the officer did not have the authority to make the decision and had not properly considered all relevant factors.

The report also found that when Mr H attended a meeting the council's threat to call the police and begin legal proceedings caused him stress and anxiety.

According to the report, Mr H had had a fractious relationship with various representatives of the council and his "written communications" were "characterised by extravagantly unpleasant allegations of improper motives and conspiracies".

Staff reminder

It said the council had limited his access to its offices and contact with staff.

A spokeswoman for North Tyneside Council said the council would apologise to the resident "wrongly excluded from a public meeting" and accepted appropriate measures were not followed.

She said: "The complaint to the Local Government Ombudsman relates to a decision prompted by the attitude of the person, which resulted in a fractious relationship with various representatives of the council.

"This decision was taken by the officer without proper authority and without consideration of whether it was proportionate and in line with the legal considerations."

The statement said council officers would be reminded of the public's rights at open meetings to prevent future incidents.

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Tom Cruise is expected to attend the ceremony

The stars have started to arrive for this year's National Movie Awards, which are taking place at London's Royal Festival Hall.

The Twilight series of films lead the way with five nominations.

Hollywood actor Tom Cruise is expected to attend the ceremony as his new film, Knight and Day, is up for most anticipated film.

The awards are voted for by the public and the ceremony is being shown live on ITV1.

The ceremony was started by ITV in 2007 but took a break last year, thought to be due to cost-cutting.

Twilight stars Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner have best performance nods, as do Harry Potter actors Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint.

Other actors nominated include Leonardo DiCaprio for Shutter Island, Aaron Johnson for Kick-Ass and Sherlock Holmes stars Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law.

Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince is nominated in the family film category against movies including Nanny McPhee And The Big Bang, and Up.

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Police had been looking for Ms Sanclemente for months

A Colombian beauty queen has been arrested in Argentina on charges of leading a drug trafficking ring.

Angie Sanclemente Valencia, 31, is accused of persuading young women to smuggle cocaine from Argentina to Europe via Mexico.

Argentine police had been looking for her for more than five months before they found her in a youth hostel in Buenos Aires.

She has denied the trafficking charges.

Ms Sanclemente won the popular title of Coffee Queen in 2000, but had to return it when it was discovered she was married, in breach of the beauty pageant's rules.

Prosecutors say she recruited other young models to travel, often as first class passengers, from Argentina to the Mexican city of Cancun and on to Europe carrying cocaine.

The Argentine press, who have dubbed her "Narco Queen", say she moved to Mexico in 2005 where she became romantically involved with a well-known drug trafficker known as The Monster.

She is believed to have moved to Argentina in 2009.

An arrest warrant was issued for her after a 21-year-old model was found carrying 55kg of cocaine boarding a flight to Cancun, Mexico.

The woman's arrest led to six more alleged gang members, who reportedly told police they had been recruited by Ms Sanclemente.

A lawyer for Ms Sanclemente said she had not turned herself in when her arrest warrant was issued because she feared she could be attacked or raped in jail.

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BP says it has begun pumping mud into a breached Gulf of Mexico oil well to try to stem the flow of oil caused by a rig explosion last month.

Chief Executive Tony Hayward had earlier said the company would go ahead with the "top kill" measure, which has never been tried at such a depth.

BP is under intense pressure to succeed with its latest attempt to stem the leak, after previous measures failed.

Thousands of barrels of oil have been spewing into the Gulf every day.

The US government had earlier approved the move.

Company officials say it could be a couple of days before they know whether the top kill procedure is working.

Engineers hope to pump enough mud into the leaking well to subdue the oil flow, and then follow up with cement to permanently seal it.

Mr Hayward has put the top kill's chance of success at 60-70%.

Speaking in California, US President Barack Obama said his administration would commit all resources necessary to stop the flow of oil into the ocean.

"If it's successful – and there are no guarantees – it should greatly reduce or eliminate the flow of oil now streaming into the Gulf from the seafloor. And if it's not, there other approaches that may be viable."

Mr Obama said the "heartbreaking" oil spill underscored the need to find alternative energy sources.

"We will not rest until this well is shut, the environment is repaired and the clean-up is complete," he added.

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A fleet of "Little Ships" which rescued Allied troops from Dunkirk in 1940 are to set sail from the South Coast to mark the 70th anniversary of the event.

The flotilla of around 60 vessels will sail to France to commemorate Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of some 338,000 soldiers from the beaches of Dunkirk.

The troops had been driven back to the coast by the German army.

The phrase "Dunkirk spirit" has become emblematic of British determination and courage in the face of adversity.

The evacuation took place between 26 May and 4 June 1940, and involved 900 naval and civilian craft which were sent across the Channel under RAF protection.

Among them were the "Little Boats" – including fishing vessels, pleasure crafts, paddle steamers and lifeboats.

During the evacuation – described by Winston Churchill as a "miracle of deliverance" – the Luftwaffe attacked whenever the weather allowed and at least 5,000 soldiers were killed.

‘No better spirit’

Seventy years on, some 60 craft have gathered in Ramsgate, in Kent, and are due to set sail for Dunkirk, in north-east France, at 0700 BST, weather permitting.

They will be escorted by the Royal Navy frigate HMS Monmouth.

Ramsgate’s Royal Harbour Marina was the reception centre for returning troops and after a weekend of commemorative events in France, the Little Ships are due to return there on Monday.

Edwin Brown, who was among those rescued in 1940, told the BBC: "They made a hell of a difference because they got us out to the bigger boats where we could get some help from the sailors who couldn’t get in because of the depth of the water."

Of that famous British pluck, Mr Brown said: "There isn’t a better spirit anywhere because everyone was looking after each other.

"If you were in trouble and you needed help, it was there. That was the Dunkirk spirit."

A commemorative ceremony will be held at the Allied memorial on Dunkirk beach on Saturday. There will be a minute’s silence, followed by the national anthems of Britain, the Czech Republic, France and Belgium.

The evacuation was a big boost to British morale.

World War II historian Nick Hewitt said it "bought time" for the Allies, allowing them to regroup and fight another day.

"Without Dunkirk, Britain doesn’t have an army and it’s extremely questionable whether Britain could have fought the war," he said.

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The Home Office is to reveal later how it will abolish the national identity card programme for UK citizens.

The bill, a Queen’s Speech pledge, includes scrapping the National Identity Register and the next generation of biometric passports.

None of the 15,000 people who have voluntarily taken out ID cards since the roll out in Manchester in late 2009, will be refunded the £30 fee.

The Labour scheme was aimed at tackling fraud and illegal immigration.

But it was criticised for being too expensive and an infringement of civil liberties.

The cards that are already in circulation will remain legal until Parliament has passed the legislation to abolish them and the register.

The national identity card scheme involved creating the biometric cards to hold personal data which was encrypted on a chip, including name and fingerprints.

The supporting national identity register was designed to hold up to 50 pieces of information.

At the same time, there were related proposals to put more biometric information on passports, beyond the standard photograph.

£800m saving

To date, some £250m has been spent on developing the programme and scrapping it will save the Home Office about £800m over a decade.

The running costs for the scheme had been expected to hit £4.5bn over 10 years, with most of that recovered from fees.

Labour’s former Home Secretary David Blunkett unveiled plans for an identity card scheme in July 2002.

He said that the card could play a role in combating terrorism, identity fraud, benefit fraud and help people get what they were entitled to in society.

By February 2010, the scheme had been rolled out to Manchester residents and 16 to 24-year-olds in London.

Despite the demise of the national identity card, a separate but technically similar scheme for some foreign nationals will continue. That scheme is run by the UK Border Agency and is still being rolled out.

Some 200,000 cards – known as biometric resident permits – have already been given to migrant workers, foreign students and family members from outside the European Economic Area.

The abolition of ID cards is among measures that the coalition partners have pledged to take as part of a reversal of what they call an erosion of civil liberties.

The other proposals, to be included in a separate larger bill, include reforms to the DNA database, tighter regulation of CCTV and a review of libel laws.

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By Alastair LawsonBBC NewsFew Kashmiris are optimistic over the chances for peace

A survey which a British academic says is the first systematic attempt to establish the opinions of Kashmiris has produced "striking results".

Robert Bradnock interviewed more than 3,700 people in Indian- and Pakistani-administered Kashmir to assess their views on various issues.

One of the key questions put to respondents was how they saw the future of the territory.

Nearly half of those interviewed said they wanted independence.

Another question asked for their views over the continuing insurgency.

Dr Bradnock – an associate fellow at the Chatham House think-tank in London – says that the survey has produced startling conclusions, especially in relation to the future of the territory.

No ‘simple fixes’

It revealed that on average 44% of people in Pakistani-administered Kashmir favoured independence, compared with 43% in Indian-administered Kashmir.

"However while this is the most popular option overall, it fails to carry an overall majority on either side.

"In fact on the Indian side of the Line of Control [LoC] – which separates the two regions – opinions are heavily polarised," Dr Bradnock told the BBC.

The Kashmir insurgency has raged for 20 years

The survey found that the "overwhelming majority" of people want a solution to the dispute, even though there are no "simple fixes".

Dr Bradnock said that in the Kashmir valley – the mainly Muslim area at the centre of the insurgency – support for independence is between 74% and 95%.

But in the predominantly Hindu Jammu division to the south, support is under 1%.

Other findings include:

80% of Kashmiris on both sides of the LoC say that the dispute is important to them personallyConcern over human rights abuses stands at 43% on the Indian side and 19% on the Pakistani sideConcern over unemployment is strong across the territory – 66% on the Pakistani side and 87% on the Indian sideFew are optimistic over peace talks – only 27% on the Pakistani side and 57% on the Indian side thought they would succeed.

Dr Bradnock said that it was "clear" that a plebiscite on the future of Kashmir – along the lines envisaged in UN resolutions of 1948-49 – is "extremely unlikely to offer a solution today".

"The results of the polls show that that there is no single proposition for the future of Kashmir which could be put to the population… and get majority support," he said.

"The poll offers no simple fixes but offers signposts – through which the political process, engaging India, Pakistan and wider Kashmiri representation – could move it towards resolution."

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Maternity staff are being warned about standards

Midwives and other staff involved in delivering babies are being warned about leaving swabs inside the vaginas of women who have just given birth.

The National Patient Safety Agency has issued an alert across England and Wales urging staff to take more care.

The watchdog has received reports of 99 cases where the swabs have been left inside women over the past two years.

While this is a small fraction of the 500,000 births a year, the NPSA said it still wanted to improve standards.

Swabs are commonly used after vaginal birth where there is bleeding.

But if left inside the vagina they can cause infection.

The NPSA said NHS trusts should improve the way it records and counts swab use so errors are picked up.

Sara Johnson, head of maternity care at the NPSA, said: "This guidance is necessary as the effects of infection and the psychological harm assocaited with these incidents can be significant and last beyond the immediate postnatal period."

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The government is to lay out its plans for what it calls a "root and branch reform" of Britain’s welfare system.

Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith will argue the coalition’s main priority is to get people on long-term benefits back into employment.

He told the Guardian the government had a "once-in-a-generation" opportunity to reform the welfare system.

Ministers plan to create one welfare to work programme and make benefits more conditional on willingness to work.

Mr Duncan Smith, brought back into frontline politics by Prime Minister David Cameron, has spent several years in opposition preparing a blueprint for the future of the welfare state.

The former Conservative Party leader is now responsible for pushing the government’s Welfare Reform Bill – announced in Tuesday’s Queen’s Speech – through Parliament over the next few months.

Of most concern to the new government is the rise in the number of inactive people of working age claiming benefits.

The BBC’s Home Affairs Correspondent Tom Symonds said its proposals will include forcing the unemployed to sign up for welfare-to-work training schemes sooner than is currently required.

Incapacity benefit

Ministers want the long-term unemployed facing "the most serious barriers to work" to sign up to work and training programmes immediately and for those under 25 to get support within six months.

They also want to speed up the assessment of all those on incapacity benefit – paid to those unable to work due to health problems. All those deemed able to work are likely to be moved onto jobseeker’s allowance.

Mr Duncan Smith told the Guardian that the welfare system discouraged many of the five million people who are on benefits from working.

"What I have come to do is look root and branch at how we deliver welfare which is aimed at groups at the bottom end of society who need help and support, either because they can’t work or because they can but they are unable to get back to work, or because they are disabled."

He said those moved off incapacity benefit would be offered "intensive" support to find work and that all of the changes would be enacted "carefully and sensitively".

Labour sought to increase incentives to work and introduce penalties for those unwilling to do so but the Conservatives said reforms must go further and faster to tackle the problem of long-term unemployment, which they say underpins many of the country’s most deep-seated social problems.

During the campaign, the Tories called for a sliding scale of sanctions for those on benefits who turned down work.

As in all policy areas, the government’s welfare agenda is having to reflect compromises reached between the Conservatives and the Lib Dems in their coalition agreement.

‘Bills of failure’

The proposals are also likely to include paying welfare-to-work providers on a results-basis, loans to help unemployed people set up their own businesses and local work clubs where people out of work can share skills and make contacts.

The government may also say how it intends to end what it claims is a system that penalises those on benefits should they try to get a low-paid job.

As part of the changes, a new cabinet committee will be set up to co-ordinate the strategy between different government departments.

In his interview, Mr Duncan-Smith hinted that he was prepared to reach out to sympathetic figures in the Labour Party to try and build a consensus over the reforms.

"Lots of different hard-headed politicians have come into this job saying they’re going to do something different and walked out with the bills of social failure still rising," he said.

"I’m determined that we take this once-in-a-generation chance to tie two parties together, and possibly elements of the third, to get the job done."

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The second most senior officer in the RAF has died after collapsing while taking part in a charity triathlon, the Ministry of Defence has said.

Air Chief Marshal Sir Christopher Moran was competing in the event at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire on Wednesday.

The 54-year-old father-of-three had served as Commander-in-Chief of Air Command for the past 14 months.

Chief of Air Staff Sir Stephen Dalton said he was "a highly respected and courageous leader".

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Apple’s innovations and its founder Steve Jobs have inspired a vast following

Apple has pushed past arch-rival Microsoft to become the world's biggest technology company.

Changes in the share price values of the two in Wednesday's choppy trading left the total value of Apple at $222bn (£154bn).

Microsoft is now valued by investors at $219bn.

The worth, known as market capitalisation, is calculated by multiplying the number of shares in a company by the current share price.

Although Apple shares closed down 0.4%, Microsoft fell by 4%.

Apple, which makes computers, iPods, iPhones and now iPads, almost went out of business in the 1990s.

Its growth is partly owing to the launch of the stylish iPod in 2001.

Its compatability with existing – but not mass-selling – Apple computers lead customers to engage with them, just as Microsoft's products looked set for long-term dominance.

Hey-day

Apple has to look back to late 1989 to see the last time it was ahead of Microsoft.

Microsoft, whose operating system runs on more than 90% of the world's personal computers, has not been able to match growth rates from its hey-day of the 1990s, although its last sales figures were still higher than Apple's.

This week sees the launch in Britain and eight other countries of Apple's iPad tablet computer.

Next month will see the unveiling of the next generation of the iPhone, something that has brought internet access on the move to the mass market, and led to an explosion in downloadable mobile "apps" – applications that enable a huge range of activities, from map reading to booking restaurants.

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