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A childminder has been telling the Liam Fee murder trial

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that she contacted social services a year before the toddler died

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because she thought somebody was hurting him.

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Heather Farmer told the court she'd become increasingly concerned

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about Liam after noticing bruises on his body.

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Rachel and Nyomi Fee deny murdering the toddler in March 2014.

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Lisa Summers reports from the High court in Livingston.

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Today the court heard from Liam Fee's child minder. Heather Farmer

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had looked after him since the summer of 2012. She kept diaries

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about the children in her care. She recorded developmental stages of

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Liam, such as speaking, walking and into acting. But she also noticed

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when she arrived with bruises on his body. By the beginning of 2013 she

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had contacted social services saying she got somebody was hurting him.

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Under cross-examination she acknowledged social services had

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visited the house, the same day she had called them and they had

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reported back that everything was fine. The childminder described on

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occasion in February 2014 when Liam had arrived at her house unwell and

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with a stiff neck. She called Rachel is suggesting she should make an

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appointment with the doctor. She said she had made one, but she said

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she did not believe the child would be taken to see the GP, so she drove

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she did not believe the child would to the surgery with her daughter and

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waited outside and there was no sign of Liam or Rachel. Rachel called her

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later on to say it was Liam's teeth and she was off to get some help

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all. Shortly after that Mrs Farmer said she could not looked after Liam

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any more because she could not trust Rachel. Rachel and Nyomi Fee deny

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Rachel and Nyomi Fee deny alarmingly in 2014.

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BBC Scotland can reveal part of this year's Higher English exam

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paper has been replaced at short notice because of concerns that

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some of the questions may have been leaked.

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Candidates across Scotland will be sitting the exam on Thursday.

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Our education correspondent Jamie McIvor reports.

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The exam season gets under way tomorrow. The Higher English exam is

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on Thursday and 35,000 candidates are due to sit the exam, but it will

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not be the original exam. One or two question papers have had to be

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replaced. There was a potential issue with one of the Higher English

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question papers. The paper was changed and a new one was sent out

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to schools and exam centres. BBC Scotland understands the issue is a

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concern that some of the questions may have been leaked. In this day

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and age with social media, any suggestion of a leak has to be taken

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seriously. In general there is always tight security around exam

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papers both here, at the printers and at the schools and exam centres.

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Normally the schools and the centres would store the papers carefully and

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only open them up a short time before the exam. The largest

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teachers' union says there needs to be an investigation to establish

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what has happened. It is natural some candidates may be feeling a bit

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nervous, while the SQA is reassuring candidate they do not need to worry.

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The new paper is at all the exam centres and they say it is up to

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standard. For the moment this story is either hugely embarrassing or it

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is a case of a potential disaster having been diverted.

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Friday's helicopter crash off the coast of Norway was probably

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caused by a technical malfunction, according to Norwegian authorities.

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The Superpuma 225 went down while en-route to Bergen

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Aberdeenshire man Iain Stuart was among the 13 people who died.

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The helicopter's manufacturers insist the model is safe.

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The campaign for the Scottish Parliament election

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The leaders of the main political parties have been out and about,

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across the country, trying to persuade voters to back them.

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The focus today has been on the economy.

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This from our Political Editor Brian Taylor.

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First Minister. Doing business Aberdeen. Nicola Sturgeon argues a

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strong economy is a vital precursor to paying for public services. She

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said SNP policies such as red exemptions for small business would

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bolster economic development. I see it every single day. If we do not

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have a strong economy with good jobs, we will not have the revenue

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we need to invest in our public services. The economy, jobs and

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opportunities for young people is at the heart of everything we want to

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opportunities for young people is at do. In Glasgow Kezia Dugdale took to

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the track disdaining claims the Tories can catch. She says the way

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to boost the economy is to invest in education, funded by tax. The best

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thing we can do to drive up productivity is to invest in the

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skills and knowledge of our people. The Labour Party is the only party

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promising to protect education budgets to make sure every child in

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this country fulfils their potential. Ruth Davidson tries a

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marine simulator, but she takes to the skies for real in a coast to

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coast search for votes. She said the Conservatives have the right ideas

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on economy. We want to freeze business rates while the review is

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ongoing to give businesses the certainty they need. We want to make

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sure Scotland is not the highest taxed part of the UK so we can get

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jobs and investment. Willie Rennie in Paradise, or rather a play centre

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of that name. Another light-hearted photocall. But he says the Liberal

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Democrats are deadly serious about increasing tax to fund education.

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People are our best resource and every thing we can do to invest them

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and get them skilled and educated, we will be a magnet for companies

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across the world to come here and exploit those great talents and

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create business, opportunity, wealth and growth. In Edinburgh and across

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Scotland councils get ready for the election for the big night. Your job

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is to fill these ballot boxes. Your job is to fill

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these ballot boxes. The fiancee of a security guard

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from Argyll, who's been held in India on arms charges for almost

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three years, has met a Foreign Office minister

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as she campaigns for his release. Billy Irving was arrested in October

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2013 along with five other men while on an anti-piracy mission

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in the Indian ocean. Today, their families and friends

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gathered in Carlisle for a rally Bring our boys home! Families and

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friends say it is a miscarriage of justice and today they were

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determined to make their voices heard. Billy Irving, a former

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soldier, had been working on a US owned ship as a security guard

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protecting merchant shipping in the Gulf of Aden against Somali pilots.

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The ship was detained in Indian waters in 2013 and the men arrested

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on illegal weapons charges. In January the six Britons were

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sentenced to five years in prison. Today supporters held a gathering to

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highlight the case. It is a travesty of justice. It is important that

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Oban shows they are supporting him and we are doing whatever we can to

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help this dreadful situation. We need to act and that is demonstrated

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by the support today and the support shown in Carlisle and other places.

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Let's get them home. A bigger rally was held in Carlisle weather

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families were meeting a minister from the Foreign Office. It is very

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frustrating, the law in India takes a long time. But at the end of the

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day the politicians cannot interfere in that judicial process in India,

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any more we can in the UK. I am in that judicial process in India,

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frustrated. When it first happened we gave people time and got on with

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things and did things quietly like they asked, but enough is enough.

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They cannot stay five years in prison, they have to come home. The

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hope is an appeal will be heard in the Indian court next month, but

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there are no guarantees. For the moment the families want to make as

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Tennis, and Andy Murray is through to the third

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He beat the Czech Radek Stepanek in straight sets.

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He's defending his title in the clay court tournament.

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As things stand tonight, Mixu Paatelainen remains

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His chairman Steven Thompson has issued a statement promising

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radical changes at the club as well as cost-cutting.

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He's also apologised for the side's relegation, which was confirmed

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It was painful last night. The realisation for United fans that

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after 20 years in the top flight their team were going down.

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Relegation and a 2-1 defeat at the hands of their derby rivals as the

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final and humiliating nail in the coffin. Relegated at the hands of

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their rivals. The big question was Mixu Paatelainen, would he walk away

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from United, or would he be pushed? We have got the knowledge regarding

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the players and some other issues that have to be sorted out. Only a

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fool would put that to waste. The club made a statement around four

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o'clock in which the chairman, Steven Thompson, made Mixu

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Paatelainen's future no clearer. He said, I have back managers with the

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third biggest budget in the league, but the results have not been

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acceptable. In the near future radical changes will be made. There

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will be fundamental changes, starting with the boardroom. There

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is not a clear strategy going forward and on the part the results

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have been terrible and the performances have been poor, so

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there needs to be a change in the head coach's position as well. Under

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scrutiny is the coach's record since taking over. They have 14 and lost

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16. Steven Thompson warned of tough times ahead. But what are his

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intentions for the club in the Championship next season?

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It's over to Christopher now with the weather outlook

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It is fairly quiet overnight. It is dry overnight and it is a dry start

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to the day tomorrow. We have this weather front producing outbreaks of

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rain and a fair old breeze from the south. For many it is a bright start

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to the day. The wind in the south means if you are in the central

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belt, you will not feel it as much as if you work on the post. Inland,

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perhaps one or two spots of drizzle over south facing hills, but for

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many it is a dry day. Those wins remain strong to gale force and many

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areas will be dry and cloudy, but there will be some brightness,

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particularly around the married first. South of the border there is

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plenty of sunshine for England and Wales and the temperatures are in

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the high teens. Temperatures for many in Scotland are around 12 or 13

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and there is a cool feel in the breeze and under the rain. That wet

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weather starts to make inroads on Wednesday evening, crossing the

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country from west to East. It clears away, but a second one is waiting in

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the wings as we head through to Thursday. For many Thursday is dry

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and bright with spells of sunshine. In the north-west there will be

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patchy outbreaks of rain. But if you get sunshine, the temperatures for

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patchy outbreaks of rain. But if you many art in the mid teens and it is

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feeling quite pleasant. On Friday plenty of sunshine once again and

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the trend for the temperatures plenty of sunshine once again and

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rising continues. We could see a high of 17 degrees in the

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south-west. In the weekend we continued to drag in that south

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easterly, so it is quite warm in southern parts of the UK. We will

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see a high of 17, but around the coasts it will be colder.

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Our next update is during Breakfast at 6.25 tomorrow morning.

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But, from everyone on the late team here in Glasgow and around

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