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weather on the way. That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye

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from me, and on Hello, and welcome to Look East.

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In the programme tonight: The mother who says holiday prices are a

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rip`off when the schools break up. She is so angry, she started a

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Downing Street petition. The only reason that I can surmise

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that they do it is because of greed. They are simply make `` they are

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simply trying to make profit and penalises people who want to do

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right by their children. The poultry giant Bernard Matthews

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posts a ?20 million loss, but says it will return to profit.

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Holding back the river, the simple steps that could cut the risk of

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flooding. And what links this robot, the

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President of France and a hospital? First tonight, a mother's campaign

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to end what she calls "rip`off" holiday prices during the school

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holidays. Donna Thresher, who lives in Essex, is so angry, she set up a

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petition on the Downing Street website.

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It started when Donna Thresher found out that a holiday at Center Parcs

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would be nearly four times more than the cost during term time. Tonight,

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her petition has 150,000 signatures. Just this afternoon, another 2,500

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people have signed up and now she wants to trigger a debate in

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Parliament. Mike Liggins reports. Donna Thresher and her partner Carl

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getting their children ready for the day. Donna runs a nursery near her

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home near Southend, Cole is a postman. Finding time and money for

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family holidays is difficult. They went to Center Parcs in Norfolk in

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2011, had a great time and wanted to go again in the Easter holidays last

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year. It was ?1000 more expensive than had I gone a week before. So in

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the April end of term holidays, it was about ?1600. Donna could not

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afford ?1600, so she started her petition. Why do the companies do

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it? The only reason I can surmise that they do it is because of greed.

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There is not really any other reason, they are trying to make

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profits. We have to price according to demand. If in the peak summer

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holidays we have three times the demand for a holiday, prices can be

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pitched at a different level to the school term times when demand is

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much lower. Parents can request term time holidays but since last year,

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headteachers can only grant absence under exceptional circumstances.

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Parents now face a fine of up to ?100. Last year, there were almost

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1,000 fixed penalties issued in Essex, Suffolk and North of `` and

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Norfolk. This woman runs a primary school and she believes parents are

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in an impossible situation, and says she will never issue a fine. I think

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it is extremely arrogant for anybody to suggest the only learning you can

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do takes place in former nobles in a classroom. I have always to believe

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it the world as a classroom without Walls `` always believed. I think

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the government needs to speak to people more. Nobody has ever asked

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me what I think and I am a headteacher. They need to ask what

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we think and what problems we are facing on a daily basis. Jenny

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Davies says we need a more flexible system. Donna Thresher needs an MP

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before there is a debate in Parliament but she believes public

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opinion is on her side. Sean Tipton is from ABTA, which

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represents companies in the travel industry, and he joins me now.

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Center Parcs said they had to price for demand, why? They choose to

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because it makes more money. The travel industry is very much driven

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by economic forces. They are right that if you see big increases in

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demand and school holidays are one factor, prices will go up. If you

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think of travel at the busiest time of year, July and August, going

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abroad, the whole of Europe wants to go on holiday. So members are

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dealing with Spanish, Greek, Portuguese hoteliers and they put

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their prices, which is inevitable and it makes perfect sense. It makes

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economic sense to them. Should the price not relate to what it costs

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and not what they can get away with charging? As a tour operator, you

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cannot say to a Spanish hotel, this is what we are prepared to pay. They

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control what they charge. That is what parents don't understand maybe,

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particularly in the summer, we are competing with the rest of Europe.

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We have made suggestions for over a decade to governments saying that

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the problem for school holidays is the times of year they are taken,

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Christmas, Easter, July and August, when demand is always high. We

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suggested staggering dates and maybe giving schools the option to have a

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break in June or September, when demand is a lot lower. That is the

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solution, you cannot artificially capped holiday prices. You cannot

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say to a Spanish hotel, this is what we are prepared to pay you, when

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they have plenty of other companies who will pay what they ask. How

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concerned would the industry be if this was raised in Parliament? I can

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understand why it will be raised and it is probably inevitable it will

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be, but the enemy realities are clear. We have talked to the

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government over the years, the present government are aware of the

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economic realities. But the solution to this, it is a supply and demand

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issue, so spread that demand out, to give families the option to travel

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at times of year when demand is lower and not have all schools

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taking holidays at the same time, which has created this problem.

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Thank you very much. Jenny Kirk is in the newsroom.

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Yes, your comments have already started coming in, like this from

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former teacher Stuart Graveston, from Cambridge, who says: If the

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cost of a holiday is too much, then don't buy the product. I'd like to

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buy a Rolls Royce, but they cost too much. Guess what? I haven't bought

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one. If that inflames you, or if you

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agree, or have a different take, get in touch via Facebook or Twitter, by

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phone on 08457 630630, or by emailing [email protected]. I'll

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be back in about 15 minutes to go through some of your comments.

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The Turkey producer Bernard Matthews says it is confident the company

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will return to profit this year, after losing more than ?20million in

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2013. The company employs 2,000 people in Norfolk and Suffolk, and

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has been hit by the cost of feed and price cutting in supermarkets.

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Bernard Matthews famous catchphrase was first shown on TV in 1980. He

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brought specially bought this land and hatched chickens, he became a

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household name. 30 years later, it is a tougher industry. Paul Kelly is

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the chairman of the British Turkey Federation. The pressure in the

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recession has been enormous so retailers have not wanted to pay

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more so there has been a squeeze on margins. They have had a tough time

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but so is every body else, they are not one. In 2005, Turkey tweezers

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were taken off school menus by Jamie Oliver, before that, Bernard

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Matthews posted profits of ?40 million. In 2006, they fell to 26

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million, the year after Bird Flu affected the company, I'd weather

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hit in 2011 and hide rain costs and an expensive is `` expensive

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restructure in Hungary led to a loss last year. The company received ``

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reduced overheads and received money from investors. It has rebranded to

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make its products more attractive to mothers, putting this flag here to

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focus on its British origins and a bolder label to stress its heritage.

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Inside is believed the turnaround will happen. We're Bernard Matthews

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turned things around? I am sure they will. They are a very professional

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company and they going through a structure and process like other

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company does. `` a restructuring. After shedding jobs in Hungary,

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Bernard Matthews is now a more modest operation and if it can

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persuade mothers to start buying again, it is confident it will be a

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more profitable operation. An Indian restaurant in Norfolk has

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been shut down, after a cockroach was found in a chicken vindaloo. A

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large`scale infestation was discovered at the Dalia Spice

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restaurant in Cromer last July. The owner, Shelina Akhter, has admitted

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eight food hygiene offences. Three men have been charged in

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connection with a series of burglaries at schools in Suffolk and

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Essex. Police say laptops and computer equipment were taken from

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primary and secondary schools over a nine`month period. The men are due

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to appear before magistrates next month. They are all charged with

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conspiracy to commit burglary with intent to steal. Scientists in

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Norwich are testing a new weapon in the fight against a deadly fungus

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which is affecting hundreds of thousands of trees.

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This region has been hardest hit by, which first appeared in the UK two

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years ago. Scientists should know within 18 months if the new

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fungicide will be available. Could find for now, in winter

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hibernation, but by the summer, `` by the summer, Ashton Rybak will

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return and spread `` confined. More than 90% of the `` trees in the East

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are at risk. Now in this laboratory, a fungicide designed to suppress the

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deadly airborne disease. Working with Sussex University, scientists

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are cautious but excited. This discovery is really important and we

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could see it being used Inc `` in combination with traditional

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fungicides in places like nurseries or plantations. But only on saplings

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and not in woodlands as it could affect the wider environment and

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that is a worry, Ashton Rybak has not affected many wild sites but the

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region is covered with the outbreak. Commercial rowers have been left

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counting the cost and some are not convinced by the trial. We cannot

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afford to treat all the trees and you could only treat the key iconic

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trees in our landscape. Or in our historic parks. We will not be able

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to treat more. The trial is only part of the armoury in the fight

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against Ashton Rybak. In a parallel trial, the Forestry Commission has

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planted more than 100,000 saplings. `12 macro. They want to see which

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will suffice the spread of the disease. Steve Scott has followed

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the out rate slowly coming he says we can contain it, but we cannot

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kill it. We had a hope `` a hot and slow summer, so it has spread from

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the core area and is now in Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire and

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Essex. In June, Ashton Rybak will be up again. `` Ash Dieback. The woods

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are undergoing a huge and unwelcome change.

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Still to come, the girl who can now eat five peanuts a day after

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researchers in Cambridge cure to allergy. And a gymnast swapping the

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union Jack for the colours of South Africa.

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After months and months of rain, most of our rivers are full and, of

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course, that means the risk of flooding is always there.

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Which is why experts are trying to find a way of cutting the risk .In

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Norfolk, they are slowing down the flow of a river upstream, to stop

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flooding further this river as it nears the sea. Like

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so many rivers, it is boxed in by man`made flood banks. But miles

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upstream, a clock is being turned back. Trees are being felled, this

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may look like a mess but it has a purpose. We are building low`lying

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structures along the edge of the river, designed to narrow the

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stream, to make it more bending, it has been straightened over the

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years. We are putting the curves back in the riffraff, and every

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structure where we felled trees will be trapping silt. The red line on

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this photograph shows the current straightened course, the plan is to

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reverted to the way veep blue course of over nearly 200 years ago. Over

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time, these areas of timber will patch the silt, and you will not be

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able to see it at all, there will be a bank here great for wildlife. And

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at times of intense flow, the river will flow outside its channel,

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meaning less flooding downstream. Aquatic life could benefit, the

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project is being backed by landowners, the Environment Agency

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and the Norfolk Rivers trust. You can see the way the river is

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bouncing from site to site, that will become a self`perpetuating

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system. The river wants to do that. Could this reduce the risk of the

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devastation being witnessed in Somerset? Perhaps. The idea is now

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being tried elsewhere. We have a really good example in Norfolk where

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over the last couple of years, we have introduced a strategy of trying

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to reinstate the river act to its natural habitat. In doing that, by

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increasing flows in the raw `` in the water course and making it more

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self`sustaining, it stops the silt build`up. Getting the river back to

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its original course will take years, but those behind the project say

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everyone will benefit. As we have heard today, researchers

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at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge have made a breakthrough

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in the treatment of one of our commonest allergies, to peanuts.

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One of the patients who was taking part in the trial is 11`year`old

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Lena Barden, who lives in Histon. From the age of two, she has had a

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severe reaction to eating peanuts and was picked to take part in the

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research at Addenbrook's. She was fed a tiny dose of nuts over a

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four`month period. At the end, she could safely eat five whole peanuts

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a day. Lena and her mum Diana are at home

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in Histon now. The first time you notice this reaction, what happened?

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She was just over two and we had been out for the day and my mother

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and I were having a drink and she broke a bit of the biscuit and she

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spat out the peanuts, which probably saved her life because that meant

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the reaction came on much slower than it would have done. So over the

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next couple of hours, she became more and more upset and coughing.

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Eventually, she was struggling for breath. Lena, down the years, what

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have you most missed eating? Probably doughnuts. You can need

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those now? Yes, I had my first about a year ago. What has it been like

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for you, presumably you go to parties and to friend and you could

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not eat what they were eating? `` friends. It was quite annoying

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because whenever my friend had a party, my mother had to read every

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label in the House. Seeing if anything had anything to do with

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peanuts, it was quite frustrating. Whenever I go out with my friends,

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it used to be annoying because I had to read every label. She has been

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very good about it but it has been difficult for you as well?

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Yes, I have to say, Lena has had to grow up much faster than her friends

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and she has had to read labels when I was not around. It has been very

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hard, we never had allergies in our family. I was weaned on peanuts, my

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family are American. It has been quite a lesson. So she has to eat

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five peanuts every day now, it keeps everything going. But you do not

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like peanuts, do you, Lena? I absolutely hate them and they taste

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disgusting. It is quite a struggle. Thank you,

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both of you. Well, from ground`breaking research

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at one of our hospitals to high`tech innovation at another.

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Today, surgeons in Ipswich used a robotic camera to beam live pictures

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from an operation to a team 800 miles away in France. It is a first

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for the UK, and the French President, Francois Hollande, was

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one of the people watching. We are inside the simulation room at

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Ipswich Hospital, watching gave very real gall bladder operation underway

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in a theatre. That is where they are putting the cannula. Into the doctor

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that comes from the gall bladder. Access comes from a robotic camera

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and we are not the only ones. The images are fed live to the European

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Institute of tele` surgery in Strasbourg. Today playing host to a

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very important visit from Francois Hollande, taking a presidential look

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at the pioneering pictures. The Strasbourg team world leaders and

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can used the link `` can use the link to give training and guidance

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to enhance a surgeon 's knowledge. From Victorian times, how things

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have changed? ``! It did not become a good idea because of infection.

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This allows us to teach the large numbers of people without having

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them in the operating theatre. The camera costs around ?70,000, the

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link especially encrypted to keep data safe. What do you see is the

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potential for this technology in the NHS? We will bring in experts in

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their field, new techniques, and improve the surgery and the result.

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The project is part of a wider drive to develop excellence here. This new

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training area with pretend patient mannequins which cost around 50,000

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pounds each opens soon. Doing things like this will attract the best of

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the best optimistic Ipswich. And I considered the people that work in

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this hospital to be the best of the best. `` into Ipswich. I think we

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can achieve greater things. They have high hopes for the future and

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this high`tech French connection is just the start.

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For almost any sportsman or woman, the best thing you can ever do is to

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represent your country. Which is why one young gymnast from

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Cambridgeshire has made a very important decision.

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Cameron Mackenzie has competed for Britain and helped the team to win

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the European Junior Championships. But he was born in South Africa and

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now he has decided to go back, to try to become the African champion.

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That would open the door to the Olympics in Rio.

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It is time for Cameron McKenzie to leave a place he has called home for

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11 years. Mum and dad help pack to begin a new journey under a new

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flag. He has been very proud to represent Great Britain and when he

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has stood on the podium with the anthem, he has been proud. But it

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would add to his experience as a person to have the additional

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privilege of standing there for his country of birth. He has trained

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here in Huntingdon since the age of nine but he has moved back to the

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country of his birth, South Africa, to achieve an Olympic dream. I have

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done a lot of national and international competitions for Great

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Britain, but to be an individual champion of a continent, that is a

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step up to another level. His first job is to get in shape for the

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African Championships at the end of March. If he wins that and becomes

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King of that continent, it is all systems go on the road to Rio. Being

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the best gymnast in Africa, with a population of a billion, would open

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up big sponsorship opportunities, not possible in Britain. He has

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competed many times under the union flag, winning junior team Gold at

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the European Championships four years ago. Do you feel English or

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South African? I would say I feel more South African. I did a

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competition for South Africa in 2010 and I was competing for Great

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Britain, and I won it. I remember standing on the podium with the

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British uncomplaining and I thought, it does not quite feel right. The

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gymnastics world is quite a close`knit family and it does not

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matter whether you represent Japan, Great Britain, South Africa,

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America, when that gymnast performs an excellent routine, everybody

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smiles and applauds and appreciates what that gymnast has done. How

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proud will you be when the South African flag gets raised, hopefully,

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in a many, `` in one of these competitions? Very proud, if

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somebody else is standing up and the South African anthem is playing, I

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get proud, so it will be a special moment. He has seen the contribution

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Louis Smith has made and he wants to provide the same spark for South

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Africa, they have not sent a gymnast to the Olympics since 1954. I could

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be looking at the next! `` they could be.

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Earlier, we asked for your views on a subject that is controversial, the

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cost of going on holiday in the school holidays. A mother from Essex

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has launched a Downing Street petition over the issue. Jenny Kirk

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is in the newsroom and she has been looking at what you have had to say.

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It looks like we cannot get the sound. We will go back to her if we

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can. Whether first. `` the weather. More rain this month. Today, we have

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had nuisance rain, a lot of cloud across the region. Showery rain and

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expect more of those this evening and overnight. By the end of the

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night, it is largely dry with clear spells developing, turning misty and

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a risk of ground frost as temperatures drop to around two

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Celsius. Into tomorrow, it does not look like a bad day in the East.

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Mainly dry, but later, wet and windy weather. This is what is coming. A

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low present `` a low pressure weather system from the Atlantic,

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bringing a lot of rain. Expect a dry morning, perhaps bright spells

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across the East. Maybe an isolated shower, but largely dry.

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Increasingly cloudy. The signal this weather front is on its way will be

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the wind speed. It is possible through the evening that those costs

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will be around 40 mph. `` gusts. Six or seven degrees as the high, the

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rain will turn persistent and heavy through the night. Much of it should

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be out of the way by Saturday. This is the pressure pattern for Saturday

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and into Sunday. Low pressure close by, so strong winds for Saturday. It

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will stay dry. Sunday is the better day as winds start to ease. This

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rain will come. Not a bad day for Saturday. Although it will be quite

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windy. We should state dry, isolated showers possible, but sunny spells,

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highs of around seven Celsius. `` stay dry. Into Sunday, more present

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`` pleasant. Largely dry by Monday, winds picking up.

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Back to Jenny. Can you hear me? Superb!

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We have been busy. A lot of you getting in touch. Some about the

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importance of a family holiday, this woman says, we cannot go on holiday,

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we cannot afford school holiday prices and we cannot afford a fine.

:25:55.:25:59.

Mike kids all living `` losing out on cultural education. Susie says,

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this is not just about families, as a person without kids, I cannot

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afford a holiday during school holidays.

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The elsewhere `` the outrageous prices affect everyone. Mary says,

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common sense tells you increased demands mean prices go up like oil

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prices in cold weather. Tony says, it is simple supply and

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demand. Sally says, so what if you cannot have a holiday? Why does

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everybody think they are entitled? Is I will government going to tell

:26:32.:26:37.

Spain to drop prices? I do not excel. Melanie says, holidays have

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been robbing us blind for years, I have parents over a barrel and they

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know it. Jamie says that most holiday places

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in the UK only make their revenues seasonally and they have to raise

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prices is a five through the winter. Peter says, it will be recoverable

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for people to understand the charges at the height of season of fair and

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reasonable. Prices at term time a reduced bargain prices. Some of you

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have set any other form of discrimination would not be

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allowed, the UK holiday industry practices discrimination policies

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over holidays. Another viewer says, thank goodness ice cream sellers do

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not put up their prices during school holidays or we would all be

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in trouble. I could not agree more! Thank you for getting in touch.

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We have been busy! People make interesting point and it will remain

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controversial. That is all for this evening.

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Good night.

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