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Hello, and welcome to Monday's Look North. In the programme tonight.

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Marathon fire. It's been burning for three days, and could keep

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going all week. We are live at the scene.

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The row that's threatening to derail plans to stage World Cup

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Rugby League in West Cumbria. How eight months fighting for his

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benefits lead to another breakdown for this man.

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And the voice of experience. How care home resident Sarah played her

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part in bringing a new play to the stage.

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In sport - gunning for the Gunners - can Newcastle push Arsenal for

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Champions League football? And not for the first time

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Sunderland get the luck of the bounce against Liverpool to go 8th

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in the Premier League. Good evening.

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Roads were closed, businesses evacuated and people warned to stay

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inside their properties. Now - two days after a major blaze started on

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Teesside - fire crews remain at the scene. And they could be there all

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week. Thousands of tonnes of timber, at the Jigsaw Wood Recycling Plant

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near Middlesbrough, were set alight on Saturday lunchtime. Three people

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have been arrested on suspicion of arson. Our reporter, Stuart Whincup,

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is at the scene and joins us now. Stuart. Does let us do Sharia this

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size of the problem firefighters face here. -- let us show you. This

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is about the size of to fit all pitches. Fire fighters are trying

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just to contain it. The wind has been quite gentle so far, but it

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has changed in the last couple of hours and there are fears the fire

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could spread. Despite his huge distraction, it has been business

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as usual for people in Port Clarence.

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At its height fifty fire fighters tackled the blaze. The smoke could

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be seen for miles. This morning - two days on - the fire's still

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going strong and the smoke continues to drip through people's

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homes and businesses. This is the third time and it is atrocious. It

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should not be there. Where else would they allow it? Tell me that.

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All the houses are full of smoke. It is terrible and, especially with

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the children walking up and down the road. Small is getting in the

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Houses and damaging curtains and things. -- smoke.

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The tactics have changed. Fire fighters are no longer trying to

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put the blaze out - they're just trying to contain it. The heat from

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the fire is still very intense appear. You can only stay here for

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a couple of minutes. The thick plumes of smoke have been living up

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beyond the site and over the top of neighbouring houses. Despite the

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destruction - shops and business have re-opened as has the nearby

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school. Although children have been kept inside all day. This may go on

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for five days, so children would not be receiving education if we

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close the school. I spoke to the staff, they are fantastic, and the

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holiday to comment so we think it is business as usual.

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Three people - in their late teens and early twenties have been

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arrested on suspicion of arson - and have now been released on

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police bail pending further inquires. You are seeing 12,000

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tons of timber being built. This yard takes wood and shreds and

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sells it for chipboard. I spoke to the owner earlier and he is

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devastated. He says there has been a number of attacks by vandals in

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recent years. They have tried to prevent it but he said that trying

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to stop something like this is impossible.

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Amazing pictures, thank you for that.

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The BBC has learned that Whitehaven could lose out on being one of the

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venues for next year's Rugby League World Cup. The council is at a

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critical point in negotiations with Whitehaven Miners - which owns the

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land the new Pow Beck Stadium could be built on. If an agreement over

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the contract isn't made within the next few days, the site wouldn't be

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ready in time. Alison Freeman reports. The announcement was

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hugely popular in a rugby league town. Whitehaven's new and yet to

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be built stadium would host an international club as well as being

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a venue for the 2013 Rugby League World Cup, but now all that has

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been thrown into doubt. It is understood that the honours of the

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access land want �750,000 for the development to take place. The

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partnership behind the development includes the council and the

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Whitehaven rugby league club and if they do not agree, it could delay

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the development which will signal the end of World Cup involvement.

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Neither the council nor the rugby league would speak on camera to

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take but confirm bigger stations where at a critical stage. I am

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very surprised because I would have thought the council would be

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fighting to get something like that in the area. I'm sure people are

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not aware of that, that in mind not be happening because everyone is

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cleared up for international activity in the town. Hopefully,

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they will pursue forward and it will go through. Everybody here

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would be a lot happier. It will bring people in from further afield.

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This would be a boost for the whole town. Any investment for the town,

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can only be good for the community. They governing body says it is

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getting ready to publish its schedule for the tournament in 2013.

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It has contingency plans in place in case Whitehaven stadium is not

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ready. Well the argument about the access land goes on, time ticks

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away and it could be spent on talks for developing the stadium.

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A woman has been jailed for life, after stabbing her brother to death

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so she could return to jail, because - she said - she had no

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friends outside. Claire Gray, who's 22, killed her 24 year-old brother,

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Ashley, at his house-warming party in Ferryhill in County Durham, last

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October. She was jailed for life with a minimum term of 12 years,

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after pleading guilty to murder. Charges against the Sunderland

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footballer Nicklas Bendtner - of vandalising cars in a Newcastle

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street have been dropped. He'd been accused - together with

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his captain and team-mate Lee Cattermole - of causing more than

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�4,000 worth of damage. Cattermole appeared at Newcastle Magistrate's

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Court today, where he entered no plea. The case against him was

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adjourned for two weeks. Work begins this week to re-connect

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an electricity supply for people living in Wasdale Head in Cumbria.

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Residents have been relying on generators since Christmas Eve. The

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new cable will be laid under a road beside Wastwater, rather than under

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the lake itself. That means it'll be much more accessible, so any

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future faults can be fixed more quickly.

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A man with schizophrenia - who suffered a breakdown, after eight

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months fighting for the benefits he was entitled to - says the system

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is failing people with mental health problems. Andrew Carr, who's

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from Scarborough, is highlighting the difficulties he faced, to try

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to help others in the same situation. Carla Fowler's been to

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meet him. Andrew Carr has schizophrenia, depression and

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addictions. In 2011, after four years in hospital he was discharged

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and set up home independently. The Disability Living Allowance he was

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entitled to was not paid to them, despite sending off forms and

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phoning up the benefit office for eight months he was without support.

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He had to borrow money and just weeks ago had another breakdown and

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was re hospitalised. My sister came up with the money to keep me out of

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going to court. It has been a running battle and it made me

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really stressed out. They are not working fast enough to help people.

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They do not concentrate on who needs the money, it is like it is

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not important. She went to the Citizens Advice expert in

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Scarborough where there experts got his claim excepted and backdated.

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There is no question that he qualified for the alliance but you

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have to go through this application process. Someone with the diagnosis

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of schizophrenia, there are claims need to be targeted and prioritise.

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The benefits process was an obstacle he could not overcome

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alone. Now he's speaking out for others like him, falling through

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the cracks of a system which are supposed to support them.

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Campaigners, fighting to save Darlington Football Club, say the

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battle has reached a crucial stage. Tomorrow the administrator will try

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to thrash out a deal with the Quakers' creditors. But the meeting

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comes as donations to an appeal fund have slowed to a trickle - and

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attendances at matches are falling again. Peter Harris reports.

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They were the images that captured the hearts of football fans

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everywhere. But from the brink of bankruptcy, a rush of donations saw

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�300,000 raised by a group looking to buy the club for its supporters.

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Survival though remains touch and go. This is the site which allows

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you to track the progress of the you to track the progress of the

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investment. You can see the initial surge of excitement on the graph,

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they had raised �300,000 in February. When you look after that,

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it flat lines which suggests it is it flat lines which suggests it is

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not going anywhere. A There are no guarantees but, we sat last night

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as a board and we all still feel that this is achievable. We are

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confident. They say they need another �300,000

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to be viable. Tomorrow the administrator meets the non-

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footballing creditors hoping to agree a deal where they are paid

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back over three years. They include the former chairman Raj Singh who

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would be asked to take nothing The interim board will now target

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businesses hoping they'll help push the investment total up. The

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interim board will now a target businesses, hoping they will push

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the Investment total up. Crowds are dropping back too, just

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over 2,000 last time. The board though says that would be enough

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for their business plan - and they have a Plan B should the team be

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relegated - as looks increasingly likely.

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Still to come in the programme, I'll be joined by Dawn for

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tonight's Team Talk. And as more and more footballers

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start to tweet - has Twitter put them back in touch with the fans-

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or is it just another headache for their long-suffering managers?

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Record-breaking temperatures across the region for the weekend, but

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what is this weekend hold? -- what does.

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Now - how's this for a plot? It's set on the day Margaret Thatcher

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dies, and it's a story about a dementia patient, a care-worker and

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the closure of a day centre. Not the obvious recipe for a comedy

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drama. But a new play - Swags and Tails - hopes to challenge our

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preconceptions and give a voice to those who're often not heard. It's

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being performed in various venues throughout the region until the end

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of the month. Tonight, for our Look North report,

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arts reporter Sharuna Sagar's been to meet a resident of a care home

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whose personal experience is behind one of the main characters. Looking

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back on it, I think I had been very lucky. I have had a very good life.

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I have done all the things I wanted to do, enjoyed my work, my has been

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used to take us out a lot. -- my husband.

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Sarah Duffy has lived in Gateshead for sixty years. But last year she

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had a nasty fall was no longer able to care for herself. To begin with,

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she resisted the move to Eighton Lodge care home in low Fell.

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first, I could not get used to not having my house. I like a lot of

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fresh air and I like to go out. But, I have enjoyed it. They have

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everything here, hairdressers, we go on trips. Janice takes us on

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trips. I am quite happy. I do not think I want to be anywhere else

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now. Sarah is part of a community which

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is the subject of a new play by Newcastle Theatre company Open

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Clasp. She took part in drama workshops to help shape the

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storyline and in her case, one of the lead characters. We did it

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because we wanted to give the older person have voice. They have an

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opinion and it gave them an opportunity to discuss their lives,

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so they could be heard. And now - the ladies finally get

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their chance to see "Swags and Tails" for the first time.

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Julia Margaret Thatcher had died? Thank God for that.

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The woman from the care home, the women from the day centre, they

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have all been tremendous. It is their humour and talent I wanted to

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celebrate in the play. We have 60 residents! There is a

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lot of laughter in the play. There are big decisions made in the play,

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women want to make a stand and say we want more. I did not think he

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was going to be like it was. I still enjoyed it. -- it was going

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to be. I think about how it centred around a day centre and that

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closure would be a big thing to people, that was important. Did you

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recognise yourself in the character Gloria? Somewhere along the line.

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For Sarah and her peers - this play is art imitating life. Their life.

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The issues raised are important and at some stage they could be yours.

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One of the biggest gripes about football today is that players have

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become remote from the fans who idolise them. Well, the social

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media site Twitter could be changing all that. On tonight's

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Late Kick Off, they're asking the question - is Twitter just a

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trouble maker for managers, or is it bringing footballers back in

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touch with the supporters? Here's Jon Williams.

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It's become an internet phenomenon. And a magnet for the modern day

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footballer. Hundreds of them now embrace Twitter. It gives them

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direct access to fans, to get a message across about what they have

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been doing in their lives. Wayne Rooney tops the Twitter league with

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3.3 million followers. While lower down the table Hartlepool United

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have 17 first team and youth team players using Twitter. It is

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another way of having dressing-room banter. You can do it on an evening,

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on an away trip, it is just a bit of fun. But not all football

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managers are twitter fans. An outspoken comment can lead unwary

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players into trouble with their club - or a costly legal bill.

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have to be careful in terms of what you could end there. I think our

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players are slowly getting to realise how important it can be, it

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can be expensive. It annoys me when one ever player says something

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stupid. You might as well say to the television cameras.

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And while several big name tweets have hit the headlines. It's not

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all good news for the sports journalists. The power with just

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there is with the players, they do not feel they have to speak to them

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reporters any more. It can get across their side of the story

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without any comeback. And you can hear more about the

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Twitter phenomenon in football on Late Kick-Off, tonight at 5-past-11

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Time, once again, for Team Talk - and some breaking news. Both

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Newcastle and Sunderland have accepted a charge of misconduct

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from the Football Association. That's arising from last week's

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fiery Tyne-Wear derby. They've both asked to put their case for the

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defence. Let's just hope they don't arrive at the same time!

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Yes - we don't want any more trouble, do we? Nothing to get to

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worked up about, at the Stadium of Light on Saturday - apart from

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Sunderland's winning goal! Liverpool must love going in there!

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In case you'd forgotten, their goalkeeper, Pepe Reina, was beaten

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by Darren Bent's famous shot in-off the beachball, back in 2009. Not

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quite as controversial this time - still quite funny, though! It

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reminded me of a pinball machine. That result was also enjoyed by

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Newcastle fans, because while Sunderland are catching Liverpool,

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the Magpies are looking stronger in sixth. Kenny Dalglish was not happy

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either. That was about the only thing Stuart Downing did all

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afternoon. Andy Carroll - a late substitute. �35 million. Not sure

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yet if he will miss the quarter- final on Saturday after that

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challenge. That will do his confidence the world of good.

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Obviously delighted. Delighted with the team again. Outside of the game

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with West Bromwich Albion a few weeks ago, it is very difficult to

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fault the team at any stage or it with any game.

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And they could pull away with a win at Arsenal tonight, of course.

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They certainly could - if they can repeat last year's win at the

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Emirates. 1-0 - thanks to someone who seems to have forgotten how to

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score goals! Yes - bit of a unfamiliar sight, this, if you're a

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Livepool fan. Andy Carroll - scoring a goal! A good one as well

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and they'll need something like that because the Gunners seem to be

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firing on all cyclinders again. will find it a very tough game for

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ourselves because they are in such good form but we are in good shape

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as well and we will try and take that into the game and take the

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game to Arsenal. It is a game in which we have to go and attack. If

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we go any other way, we could get picked off.

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On to Middlesbrough, where - before kick-off - there was a moving

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tribute to Jack Watson, one of the grand old men of North East sport.

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Sadly, Jack died on Saturday, at the age of 90. He'd played cricket

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for Durham and Northumberland, been a scout for just about all the

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region's football clubs, was caretaker manager of Darlington

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four times, and was still working for his big friend, Tony Mowbray,

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at the time of his death. Unfortunately, Boro couldn't do

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anything to brighten the mood - a pretty grim performance against

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their Yorkshire rivals. A mistake from Jason steal there. And then

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another mistake which allowed the second goal to go when. Kevin

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Thomson came on. He is an injury nightmare, broke his leg falling

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off the treadmill. He pulled his hamstring and has had a stomach

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upset and lasted 15 minutes before getting kicked in their head. Then

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a tussle followed - on the one of them got a red card. He will miss

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some important games. Could perhaps have done better with that one.

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Tony Mowbray not very happy with that one and some tough games

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coming up. So it's Birmingham away next, followed by a trip to West

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Ham - crucial games. This team have responded magnificently all here.

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After a defeat, generally we go back and won a game. We have a

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tough one next. We have been particularly good on the road this

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year. We have had some fantastic results playing away from home. It

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is probably good for us that we have the majority of games away

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from home now. As we said it is Birmingham away next, followed by a

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trip to West Ham. In fact, only two of their next

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eight matches are at the Riverside - which might not be a bad thing,

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because they've actually picked up more points away from home this

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season! Into League One, and Carlisle are

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right up there in the play-off race after a 4-1 win over Bury. They

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went behind, midway through the first half - but then equalised

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with one of the goals of the season, from Liam Noble - who, we know, can

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hit a ball pretty well. It's not the first time he's done

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something like this - but what a fabulous shot - straight into the

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top corner - milking the applause - and you can do that, when you score

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a goal like that! The second one was pretty good as

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well. And a bit special for Jordan Cook - the 22 year-old, on loan

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from Sunderland, with only his second goal in senior football. The

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first of three in the last 12 minutes for the Blues.

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Yes, the third and fourth came from top-scorer Lee Miller - one from

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the penalty spot. Notts County are sixth - that's the final play-off

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position. Carlisle are a point behind - but they do have two games

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in hand. Elsewhere, Hartlepool picked up a point in a pretty grim

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goalless draw at Walsall - this, a rare chance for them. But manager

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Neale Cooper said teenager Jack Baldwin gave: "the best individual

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performance since I came back to the club." That was him, defending

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well from a dangerous free-kick. He's just 18, and last season he

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was playing for Faversham Town in the Ryman League. And Pools need

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him, because they're missing eight first-teamers at the moment - so

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that was a decent point. Finally, a word on the success of

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some of our rowers at the British trials this weekend - held on the

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Olympic course at Eton Dorney. Teesside's Kat Copeland won the

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women's single skulls. And North Yorkshire's Andy Triggs-Hodge

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successfully defended his men's pairs title with partner Pete Reed.

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Well done to them - the competition for seats at the London Games is

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intensifying. The rowers won't find out if they've make the squad until

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June - but Triggs-Hodge says British rowing is better than it's

:24:10.:24:20.
:24:20.:24:21.

ever been. We're starting to out compete the Redgraves and Pinsetts.

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We are starting to see a few new records fall. This is exactly where

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we need to be, we cannot rely on their ghost any more. I cannot wait,

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the Olympics here in five months' time. You cannot feel any better.

:24:39.:24:44.

It was very sunny there. I would have been cutting the grass

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yesterday, if not for a party I went to.

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A bit early for grass. Almost. It has been very mild indeed, we had

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record temperatures over the weekend. More than 19 Celsius in

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Yorkshire, breaking records for March. A beautiful image two

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starters off. This daffodil in the sunshine, in Gateshead. Headlines

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for tomorrow - bright spells across for tomorrow - bright spells across

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the North-East. Cloudier in the West. Clear spells this evening,

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not for long, bad news for those hoping to catch a glimpse of the

:25:30.:25:34.

Northern Lights, there is a geomagnetic storm in the action at

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the moment. So cloudy in the West and for the North East coast. You

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might be lucky over the Tyne and Wear Valley's. Most places quite

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mild overnight. Mild also for the start of Tuesday. Tomorrow morning

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it stays cloudy in the West, misty over the hills. Brighter for the

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North East and North Yorkshire. Sunshine breaking through the

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clouds. Bright skies in the afternoon and a top temperature of

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40 -- 14 Celsius. Just a bit chilly air at the coast. West's words - a

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thicker cloud comes in with the bees. Gloomier in the West to end

:26:22.:26:30.

the day. Nine Celsius is the average for the Cumbrian coast and

:26:30.:26:36.

the average for this time of year. Higher than average for the rest of

:26:36.:26:42.

the region. Good weather continues, high pressure brings bright skies

:26:42.:26:46.

for much of the North East on Wednesday and Thursday. Misty in

:26:46.:26:52.

the morning, cloudier in the West, gloomy for Carlisle on Wednesday.

:26:52.:26:58.

Further south the cloud will tend to be thicker. Everywhere,

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temperatures will remain above average for this time of year. Good

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news for the spring flowers. Weather will remain dry indeed. We

:27:08.:27:11.

do not expect any rain for the do not expect any rain for the

:27:11.:27:14.

gardens as yet. Now for a look at tonight's

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headlines. Seven water companies in southern and eastern England are

:27:17.:27:25.

introducing hosepipe bans. It will affect millions of customers. And

:27:25.:27:28.

firefighters tackling a blaze at a wood recycling plant on Teesside

:27:28.:27:34.

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