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Prizes of off-duty police march on London about their cash mac. They

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are joined by the Chief Constable 1000 local officers joined the

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match en London will stop be. Well helping us with our inquiries today

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- two MPs - locked up in our little cell.

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They are James Gray - a Conservative MP in Wiltshire.And

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Tessa Munt - the Lib Dem MP from Somerset. Welcome to you both.

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Before we get stuck into crime - you are both united in your

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determination to make cuts, but the reform of the House of Lords looks

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like being the issue that could prise you apart. When the caution

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was put together instead of focusing on benefits like plague or

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Tote alternative voting and House of Lords report. In my 30 years of

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knocking on doors and not one person has ever said the war to see

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the House of Lords reformed. Let us leave it as it as. The are doing a

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good job. Genes ought to look at the caution again. We wanted lower

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taxes. We wanted more money put into schools. Yes, we wanted a

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change to the voting system. We want to be sure they had been

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unsustainable as this. For why are you saw hang up on Lords reform?

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is not just as. All three parties have said they would like House of

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Lords reform. This has been on the agenda for 100 years. It is

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ludicrous that the party leader should be able to choose who sits

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in the chamber. I would rebel strongly against that. I will be

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campaigning against that. Even efforts but the caution? The House

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of Lords does a first-class job. It holds as guys back. The Lords to

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enjoy good job. Let us read them on. You could not care less about the

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collision? But has not quite what I said. You did not win the election.

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This is something that has been on the agenda of 100 years. We will

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not occur whetted for 100 years. Now 'ello 'ello 'ello - what's

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going on here. A thousand off duty officers went to London this week

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to protest about 20 per cent cuts to the police. They were even

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joined by the chief constable of Gloucestershire - although his

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office denied that he was taking part. He was just there. Paul

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Barltrop has been watching the protestors on the beat and has

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taken a few statements. It was the day when the thin blue

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line became a long blue line, as police officers gathered in London

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to protest. A thousand came from the West - the biggest contingent

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from the Avon and Somerset force. am upset about this then that the

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current bid on our terms and conditions. They have betrayed us

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as being all repeats. It is wrong. We are looking within the next four

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years as queen back to the figures we were ended in the 1980s. That

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has got to affect frontline policing. All those who protested

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in London were off-duty. They insist it's not their actions which

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threaten public safety - it's the cuts. We are very concerned. At the

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end of it did it means less police officers will stop when you pick at

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the form on occasions you'll have to wait longer than you should have

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an. Police numbers reached a record high towards their end of the

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Labour governments. The number of losses now is the laws for one day

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it. This police officer is quitting in protest at Fox the Government is

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doing. The Police Federation will not relent.

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I have a cash mac to deep and too fast? Numbers are not everything.

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We want to get policemen eight of the back of this dash mac out of

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the Back Office. When serving police officers say they will have

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to wait longer they have got it wrong and you have got it right?

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Last autumn the same people were marching because they were

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concerned about their pensions. They are doing better than other

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armed services. Why should the police to that much better than

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anybody else? The police commissioner is a one-off. Can you

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justify its queer they are seeing officers call time from 3,400

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stitches 1,700? One of the problems and even and Somerset is that any

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cut the cake up we are �20 million pay you down. Avon and Somerset as

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badly off. Over the last five years they have been in partnership. They

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have cut their back office. Candy cut more without affecting those of

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us who love in it this year? They want to provide acute service. But

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this what they do. They have cut their VAT office. It is people like

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me that needs to persuade the Government to cut the cake in a

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different way. The question is are at the cuts necessary? In Avon and

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Somerset they half-cut already. He's says he is in favour of the

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cats, are you? I would sit let as cut the cake Feely and then make

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cuts. I do not think the cuts are fair. But as the conversation I

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have. It was Labour to build up police numbers. Ngaio a

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Conservative lead caution is cutting them. It is a question of

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whether or not you get better law and order through lower numbers. We

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are reducing their army numbers. I am not certain that more means

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better. We want better delivery of services at the streets. At the

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moment be have borne the 11 % of the police on the streets. And a

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place like this will be are more people this bowl dash mac does have

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a West Now I hope you're sitting down to a

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nice Sunday lunch after this programme. But go easy on the roast

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potatoes though eh! Obesity is still a huge problem in the west -

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and some are criticising the Government for letting schools off

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the hook when it comes to school dinners. Our Health Correspondent

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Matthew Hill has the story. Last- minute preparations for dinner.

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Things have changed a lot with school meals. They can call me Sir

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Chips on a Friday. Bat has because of strict nutritional guidelines.

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Academies are free from these regulations. This academy sticks to

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them at its head fears others do not. If it would be better if the

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guidelines had stayed. It takes away that temptation that could be

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the year in a couple of years' time if we are short of money. White as

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Sale and healthy products. I hope we never are. That is what happens

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in France. Fright feed his lizards to one day per week. The Government

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has tightened up a nutritional standards. It already works. Beyond

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the strict control of obesity we can also observed great progress

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regarding the social aspects of the meal. Back in Britain there

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Education Secretary will not be moved. Without the state did it

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intervene people automatically be wickets - do we believe it? Schools

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which become academies already have strong leadership. We believe it

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will demonstrate that leadership. I am not leaving it to chance. The

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School Fruits Trust has looked at improvements that have been made in

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school food and they will be publishing a report shortly. I am

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going back to desert. Nor sticky toffee pudding. Bat may be a good

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thing. Joining the is a chef who is

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advising the Government on school meals. Which academies are floating

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the Government suggestions? I am the chairman of the Children's Food

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Trust. We have anecdotal evidence that standards are being flouted.

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have looked on the websites of up some academies. Some of those menus

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look stunning. The are stunning. That his great work by crooks,

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caterers. Great standards in place. The danger is that these new

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academies will not need to conform to the laws in the future. That

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will mean we will call back to it having foods higher in fat, sugar

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and salt. There is a �5 billion costs to be the economy at the

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moment in terms of obesity. Headteachers will nor that an army

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marches on its stomach. As it also down its uses it parents? Everybody

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has an responsibility. For 190 days of the year, 12 years of their

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lives, the under the leadership of a head teacher. I want them to see

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the value that good food springs to their school. That his behaviour,

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attainments, public health issues. Public health and education

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officials meets to get in a room together and sort the problem out.

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Is it up to schools to make sure that people eat healthily?

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whole idea behind the academy process as we are seeing to their

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heads, parents, and chair of governors, that you are intelligent

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and we will give you freedom to do the right thing. What if the Tudor

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wrong thing? Fees and seduce their right thing. Socialists like Sissy

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we know best. We would not let them buy cigarettes. People die to Ali

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because the eat food that is bad for them. This is not being

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socialist. This is common sense. You can also do badly if you are

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top the wrong things. If you feed them better they can do better in

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the school setting. She did the state interfering? Jimmy had the

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good points when he intervened. Children were not being fed the

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rate feeds. The more that children have school dinners, but more of

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the line to be sociable, are lining table manners, and not wasting food.

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En France the all-clear off for two hours. Our culture is different.

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There are lots of solutions. Lots of schools have been doing that.

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This policy allows that to be undone. We have examples of

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extended lunch hours. Lots of children bring their all and packed

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lunches. An arid year there are lots of schools that do not have

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kitchens. We have worked hard to get the numbers up. Year upon year

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for the last the use we have seen school meals going in the right

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direction. Not only are the increasing that they are also

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better than they have been before. It is still a job that needs to

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continue. We have faxed 20 years of under-investment. We have only had

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five years of investment. A windy you report? It will be soon.

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Time now to take a look at some of the other political stories making

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the headlines this week in just 60 seconds.

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The Lib Dems in Bristol have picked the man they want to run the

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council until the city gets an elected mayor. Simon Cook has been

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a councillor in the city for over ten years and is also an actor

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who's stared in programmes such as Casualty as well as many stage

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productions. I am delighted to be leader.

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The speed limit is being slashed in all residential areas in Bath and

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North East Somerset. The council has decided to introduce the new

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20mph limit across the city and surrounding villages this summer.

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Labour have selected their candidate to run for the elected

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Police Commissioner job in Gloucestershire. Rupi Dhanda is a

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lawyer and wife of the former Labour MP for Gloucester Parmjit

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Dhanda. Caravan park owners from Somerset

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have been in Westminster to campaign against plans to raise the

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tax on static caravans. Ministers say the 20% rate will raise �45

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million pounds in the next five years, but campaigners say it'll

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ruin the industry. Let us talk about the tax on a static caravans

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stock is there nothing you will not tax? But as the last thing I would

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tax. This will increase costs to the state. There are 36,000 people

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in Somerset who are dependent on tourism related jobs. There are

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fires Inns of caravans. The town is dependent. These caravans are made

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in the north. Is this another version of the pass the tax? I are

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rebelling on the church tax. That is affecting my constituency quite

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badly. That is one tax too far. Caravans you call with? I have some

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sympathy. These are ordinary people. Very often due off fee family's

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gets together to buy a caravan. It cannot downgrade. You are talking

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as if it says nothing to do with you. That is my part of being in

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