Imogen Foulkes reports on the shooting, as emergency services deal with the scene
Three people have been killed and seven injured during a shooting at a factory near the Swiss city of Lucerne, police have said.
The killer, a 42-year-old man who had worked at the factory for 10 years, is among the dead.
Shooting broke out in the canteen at the Kronospan wood processing plant in the town of Menznau at around 09:00 (08:00 GMT).
A prosecution spokesperson said the shooting took place over a few minutes.
Five of the injured are reported to be in a serious condition, the Associated Press reports.
Rare violence
"The workers were eating a snack in the cafeteria during the morning, and there was a massacre," said a man quoted by the Swiss news website 20minutes, who had phoned the factory to check on the welfare of his father.
An emergency telephone line was set up for families of the factory's employees.
"There were three dead and seven injured, some of them seriously injured," prosecutors' spokesman Simon Kopp told Swiss newspaper Blick.
The chief executive of Kronospan, Mauro Capozzo, denied rumours that job cuts were due to be announced.
He described the man who opened fire as quiet and unassuming.
"One almost didn't see or notice him," he said, according to Reuters.
Switzerland has one of the highest rates of gun ownership in the world, with an estimated 2.3 million firearms owned by the country's eight million people, but such gun attacks are relatively rare.
All healthy Swiss men aged between 18 and 34 are obliged to do military service and all are issued with assault rifles or pistols which they are supposed to keep at home.
Until recently, many kept their weapons even after completing their military service - though rules on this have recently been tightened.
According to the Geneva-based Small Arms Survey, Switzerland ranks third in terms of gun ownership, behind the United States and Yemen.
The Ministry of Defence has bought billions of pounds worth of equipment that it does not need, MPs have said.
Between 2009 and 2011, it bought £1.5bn worth of raw materials and consumable supplies - like uniforms and ammunition - more than it used, a report from the Public Accounts Committee found.
But the committee said it was "cautiously encouraged" that the MoD was "now starting to get a grip".
The government has pledged "to reverse decades of lax inventory management".
The committee said the MoD did not always dispose of items it no longer needed. More than £4.2bn worth of non-explosive supplies had not moved for at least two years, it said.
The MPs also said they were "disappointed" that the MoD had failed to improve its management of supplies, despite criticism from the National Audit Office dating as far back as 1991.
'Over-ordering'
Committee member Richard Bacon said: "It is unacceptable that the Ministry of Defence is wasting significant amounts of public money buying equipment and supplies that it doesn't need.
"It is particularly galling at a time when funding is tight and when one considers that the National Audit Office has been warning about these issues for over 20 years."
The report said: "The MoD purchases, holds and uses more than 710 million items of 900,000 different types, from bullets and missiles to medical supplies, clothing and spare parts for vehicles, ships and aircraft.
"Project teams within the department can order as much consumable stock as they think they might ever need because they are only billed for it when they use it."
There were therefore "no incentives in place to prevent over-ordering", it concluded.
The MoD plans to introduce controls to reduce spending on inventory by £300m in 2012-13 and £500m each year by 2015.
It also intends to reduce the volume of stock held by 35% in order to make room for equipment returning from Afghanistan and Germany in central depots, some of which are already at 90% capacity.
'Persistent prudence'
Defence Equipment Minister Philip Dunne said: "Support for military operations is, and must continue to be, our first priority.
"Appropriate reserves of equipment are essential to be able to deploy our armed forces at short notice and sustain them on operations around the world."
He added: "I am determined to reverse decades of lax inventory management to ensure that MoD assets are managed much more efficiently in the future.
"Considerable progress has been made since 2010; the size and value of our holdings are now heading in the right direction and we plan to spend almost £2bn less on inventory over the next four years."
But shadow defence secretary Jim Murphy said: "Ministers seem to be cutting kit we need while ordering equipment we'll never use. Ministers should be cutting from the backroom not the frontline.
"Continued waste is unacceptable at a time of deep defence cuts and government failure to balance the books.
"There must be persistent prudence to ensure every penny piece is spent wisely.
"We need real reform to MoD budgeting. The government must respond by getting a grip of the inventory management system."
Thailand's government has signed its first-ever peace talks deal with Muslim rebels aimed at ending a decades-long conflict in the south.
The deal was signed in Malaysia by the National Revolution Front (BRN), one of several groups operating in Thailand.
More than 5,000 people have been killed since the conflict reignited in the Muslim-majority region in 2004.
Malaysian PM Najib Razak and his Thai counterpart Yingluck Shinawatra are to meet in Kuala Lumpur later on Thursday.
Their annual meeting is expected to include talks on the insurgency in the south as well as cross-border trade, said the Bangkok Post newspaper on Wednesday.
Malaysia has been acting as a facilitator for the negotiations between the Thai government and the Muslim rebels and is likely to host any peace talks.
'Do our best'
The document signed in Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, will begin a "dialogue process", said officials.
More details of the agreement will be made public after the two prime ministers meet, Malaysian officials were quoted by Associated Press news agency as saying.
Many attempts have been made before to start talks between the Thai government and the Muslim insurgents fighting in the far south of the country - most were half-hearted, and all failed.
What is different this time is that the two sides have signed an agreement to begin negotiations, and that it is being launched very publicly by the prime ministers of Thailand and Malaysia.
That commits both sides to stick to the process - for the first time, the insurgents have been given recognition by the Thai state, and their demands can be heard and discussed.
This breakthrough follows an abortive raid by a large group of insurgents on a Thai military base earlier this month, in which 16 of them were killed.
The incident appears to have shaken the Thai government into reaching out to the insurgents, rather than retaliating for the raid with force.
However this is still just the start of a process that is untested and could stumble on many issues.
The BBC's Jonathan Head in Bangkok says that while attempts have been made before to launch a peace process, this is the first time both sides have committed to doing so in writing.
However, he adds that it is only a first step, noting the splintered nature of the insurgency and the possibility that the various rebel leaders may limited influence over their fighters on the ground.
The secretary-general of Thailand's National Security Council Paradorn Pattanatabutr, who signed the deal, said it was "another attempt by the government to tackle the unrest" and did not mean an immediate end to the conflict, Bangkok Post reports.
Hassan Taib, who signed the document for the BRN, told reporters: "We will do our best to solve the problem. We will tell our people to work together to solve the problems."
BRN, or Barisan Revolusi Nasional in Malay, is just one of several rebel groups in the south.
The rebels in mostly Muslim southern provinces are thought to be fighting for greater autonomy from Buddhist-majority Thailand.
Malaysia also brokered a framework peace agreement between the Philippines and its largest Muslim rebel group last year.
All councils are having to strike an increasingly difficult balance between protecting hard-pressed taxpayers and maintaining local services"
End QuoteIan CarruthersDirector of policy, Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy
Any increase over 2% percent is supposed to trigger a local referendum - but some councils are finding ways to increase it by more than that without a poll.
These councils have taken legal advice and plan to use a loophole that allows them to increase waste and transport costs by more than the 2% cap. Others have opted to put up taxes by 1.99%.
A small number of authorities are managing to reduce council tax by finding more efficient ways to deliver services.
Regional variations included an average 1.2% rise across Yorkshire and Humber, and a 0.1% increase in London.
Cipfa director of policy Ian Carruthers said tight budgets meant councils had to make difficult choices between tax rises and cuts in services.
"Councillors must take council tax decisions based on local priorities," he said.
"As the pressures from this period of unprecedented austerity intensify, all councils are having to strike an increasingly difficult balance between protecting hard-pressed taxpayers and maintaining local services.
"The imminent changes to local authority funding systems are bringing added uncertainty to councils' financial management and making it more difficult than ever for councillors to take the medium and longer term decisions required."
'Fully accountable'
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles said the small average increase across England meant it was "a tax cut in real terms".
A Local Government Association spokesman said: "This has been a tricky decision for councils.
"Collectively local authorities are facing a 33% cut in funding from government at the same time as the cost of providing services like adult social care is climbing through the roof.
"The council tax grant from government is very small when set against those pressures and it lasts just two years with no certainty beyond that.
"Ultimately councils have to take a long-term view. Some have clearly decided that increasing council tax is one way of meeting current costs and alleviating pressure in the longer term.
"Councils are fully accountable to their electorates for these decisions."
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A section of the club's supporters was unable to forgive or forget Benitez for his association with Liverpool, and the acrimonious rivalry formed with then Blues boss Jose Mourinho.
Benitez outwitted 'The Special One' in the
2005
and
2007
Champions League semi-finals and the
2006 FA Cup semi-finals,
and directed some barbs towards the club.
"I have been in charge in football for 26 years, I won the Champions League, I won the Fifa Club World Cup, the FA Cup, the Italian Super Cup, the Spanish league twice, nine trophies - all the trophies you can win at club level," said Benitez after a comfortable victory at the Riverside.
"So this group of fans are not making any favourites with the team and they are singing and wasting time preparing banners.
"They have to concentrate on supporting the team, that's what they have to do.
"Every game they continue singing and preparing banners, they are wasting time. What they have to do is support the team.
"I am a professional and I am doing my job. What I want to do is win every single game for Chelsea."
Reports emerged from Stamford Bridge earlier in the week that Benitez was involved in a
heated exchange with members of his squad
after their 2-0 defeat at Manchester City on Sunday.
Rafa's rants
Benitez's 'fact' statement in 2009, responding to Sir Alex Ferguson's comments about the fixture list: "I want to talk about facts. I want to be clear, I do not want to play mind games too early, although they seem to want to start."
On Roy Hodgson succeeding him as Liverpool boss in November 2010: "Every single press conference is even worse than the last one. He is talking about things he doesn't know… some people cannot see a priest in a mountain of sugar."
On Everton, February 2007: "When you play against the smaller teams at Anfield you know the game will be narrow."
He reiterated his satisfaction with his squad after they set up an FA Cup quarter-final clash with Manchester United.
"I have a top side and a good group of players who work hard and it is a top club, it is not a problem," he said.
"The problem is a group of people who can say what they want."
Chelsea have won 14 of 27 matches since Benitez took charge and are fourth in the Premier League, 19 points behind leaders Manchester United.
The former Inter Milan boss said he would be "the happiest man in the world" were the club to qualify for the Champions League, but questioned the decision to call him 'interim manager'.
"I have a title. Someone decided the title would be interim. Why? Just in case?" said Benitez.
"Fine, that is your decision. I don't agree, but that is your decision and now everybody has to take responsibility.
"Everybody is interim because after you there is another one. In this case they didn't have anyone so why did they put interim?
"I can't change the titles and the perception so it doesn't matter now. What I have to do is be sure that I give 100% every single day. They will know I am trying to do my best.
"The manager is the manager. One month, three months, seven months - it doesn't matter.
"I think the reason why the group of fans is not happy is because I was Liverpool manager, we played in the Champions League, massive games, that's it."
27 February 2013Last updated at 21:08 ETBy Sabrina SweeneyEntertainment reporter, BBC News
Singer and bassist Chilli Jesson and guitarist, Sam Fryer speak to the BBC's Sabrina Sweeney after their live session at Maida Vale studios.
Just eighteen months ago, London indie rockers, Palma Violets formed after a chance meeting at the Reading Festival.
With their eagerly anticipated debut album, 180, released this week, the foursome - who've been compared to Joy Division and The Libertines - are enjoying the excitement and praise that's been showered upon them by fans and critics alike.
The band also made the longlist for the BBC's Sound of 2013.
"We just take it a day at a time. How boring is that for an answer?" says frontman, Chilli Jesson, when we meet at Maida Vale studios after the band's live recording for BBC 6 Music.
"We don't read the magazines. We just go out and play."
"[It's] really exciting," adds Jesson, who shares lead vocals with fellow frontman, Sam Fryer.
Until now, the band have been riding high on the success of their debut song, Best of Friends, NME's top track of 2012 and their second single, Step Up For The Cool Cats.
"I can't wait for the record to be out because we've been playing these songs for a while and audiences don't know the words or the lyrics or any of the songs, apart from the two singles, so it's a lot easier when you've got a record out and people have heard it.
"I can't wait for people to hear the record and then come see the live shows, because I know that feeling of going to see a live band when you love the record," he adds.
Nick Cave and The Clash
Both on and off-stage, Jesson and Fryer display a special chemistry, ignited back in September 2011 after a chance meeting at Reading festival, when they bonded over their eclectic musical tastes and the likes of Nick Cave and The Clash.
There's too many groups that I've seen that just stand there and look good. I think we look all right. But we give it 100%."
End QuoteChilli Jesson
"I was playing guitar to my friends around the campfire and he was just a lonely straggler," reveals Fryer.
"It was a Velvet Underground song and (Chilli) really liked it and said (he) wanted to be my manager."
Fast-forward 18 months and it's clear it was more than just a drunken stumble in the dark, when new festival friends make promises they can't remember and rarely keep.
Their raw, energetic excitement which is flamboyant yet unshowy, sees them jump around stage and stumble into each other like soul mates who've been playing together for years.
"There's too many groups that I've seen that just stand there and look good. I think we look all right. But we give it 100%.
"We both went for two years to shows. I had to save up and buy tickets, so all those kids who come down [to see us], I want them to have the best show that they possibly can.
"I think that's every single member of the band who gives it everything and if [we] don't, we'd be quite upset with ourselves," he adds.
'Undercooked'
NME elevated Palma Violets to dizzying heights when it named their debut song, the punkish sing-along Best of Friends, the best track of 2012. The buzz saw them touted as one of the bands who could bring British indie guitar music back into the charts in 2013.
But not all the critics have been so enthralled. The Guardian's Alexis Petridis described 180 as "undercooked", with their free-form song writing "leaving you with the distinct impression of a band throwing disparate ideas at the wall in the hope that some of them stick".
Jesson and Fryer admit they don't have a song writing process, but care enough about the music to "chuck" anything they're not all entirely happy with.
"We never like to have a formula," says Jesson. "That's why our songs don't usually develop in a natural way. It's not always verse, chorus, verse, chorus. It's really natural."
We knew we'd never want to sign to a major label. They're all sharks."
End QuoteChilli Jesson
"It's just spontaneous," adds Fryer. "Sometimes it's all of us shouting at each other in a room, other times we'll work on it on our own at home and we'll form an ear round that. We're always arguing because (Jesson) wants to punk it all up and I want to make it all epic and intense," laughs Fryer.
"Because we got that lovely place, studio 180, we were able to write songs pretty quickly and it all came about really naturally," he adds.
Label courtship
The band say they crave creative freedom and it's one of the reasons they say they're thriving under the management of Rough Trade records, the independent - but by no means small - label, known for nurturing raw talent.
"We knew we'd never want to sign to a major label," says Jesson, adding: "They're all sharks.
"I don't think we would have worked. We needed time and space and [to have] people like Geoff (Travis) and Jeannette (Lee) who run the label, who love our music and are actually hands on.
"They've been in the industry for 30 years and Jeannette was in PiL (Sex Pistol John Lydon's band), so we've got a lot of rock and roll advice, which is good."
Palma Violets recently played a roll of US gigs including shows in Brooklyn, a place they "fell in love with".
"The people are a lot more appreciative and the bands really give it something," enthuses Jesson.
"The first band we played with had travelled from Vancouver to play a show and they [got] there and bang, they [were] on. That's the kind of attitude I like," he adds.
So has the magic of America lured them into breaking the notoriously difficult market?
"We just hope for the opportunity to go back, just because we love that place," says Jesson.
"I've always dreamt about New York and we write about America in our music subconsciously. It's a place we really dreamt about going so [playing there] was really special," he adds.
Palma Violets debut album, 180 is out now. The band begin a UK tour in March.
27 February 2013Last updated at 19:22 ETBy Matt McGrathEnvironment correspondent, BBC News
Sausage maker Kevin McWhinney campaigns for good quality food - he asks, what goes into cheap sausages?
The BBC has learned that European meat suppliers are using a loophole in the law to sell a banned low quality material to UK sausage makers.
E-mails indicate that suppliers are selling a form of mechanically recovered residue under different names so that it can be legally termed meat in Britain.
One of the UK's biggest sausage suppliers admitted that some of this meat is in their products but where used it is always declared.
Another manufacturer told the BBC he believes the product is being widely used in Britain.
In April 2012 the European Union told the British government that a type of mechanically separated meat (MSM) used across the UK could no longer count towards the meat content of a product.
Not content
Called desinewed meat (DSM), it had been introduced into the UK in the 1990s and supporters argued that it was a higher form of recovered meat, retrieved from animal bones using low pressure water. Visually it is said to be similar to a fine mince, and closer to meat than the more liquid MSM "slurry".
The EU said DSM could still be used in UK meat products but could not be considered part of the meat content. This ban should also apply to desinewed meat across every member state.
The UK should not be using this baader meat but as far as I am aware it is coming into the country and is being used..."
End QuoteKevin McWhinneySausage manufacturer
But the BBC has learned that across Europe many suppliers continue to produce desinewed meat using different names including "Baader meat" and "3mm mince".
Baader meat is made using a machine from the Baader company in Germany and according to a spokesman, the device removes the membrane and the sinew and in the end "it is meat!"
Suppliers that use the Baader system in Germany, the Netherlands, France and Spain all stated they believed their desinewed products are outside the EU ban and can count towards the meat content of sausages and other foods.
In e-mails seen by the BBC, some of these companies say they are very keen to supply it to the UK.
"My information is that you only have to declare MSM, and Baader no." said one German based supplier.
"I know it is very strange but I didn't invent these laws," he writes.
A supplier of chicken meat made a similar point in another email;
"Declarable MSM is derived from chickens with all the meat and skin in its original format and minced via the Baader machine, all the bones are separated mechanically. This format can be declared as meat in the ingredients."
Baader process
Mark Fiddy is the managing director of Poultex, a UK based international meat and poultry trading firm. I asked him if his company sold Baader meat in the UK.
"Well we supply that product, I can't say who we supply it to or what they do with it, but we supply that product," he said.
I asked him if that Baader meat can count towards the actual meat content of a sausage in the UK.
He replied: "Well we buy and sell it, we're not responsible for the end labelling and what goes on meat contents and things like that."
Freshlink Foods is the largest private label frozen sausage supplier in the UK retail market. When contacted by BBC News they admitted that they did use Baader meat.
"Some Baader meat is used in our own branded product that goes into the foodservice market. Where used, this is clearly declared," they said in a statement.
Freshlink is a subsidiary of ABP Food Group, the company that owns Silvercrest Foods where the first products with equine DNA were discovered in January.
Other people close to the food processing industry in the UK suggest that the use of Baader meat is widespread.
Kevin McWhinney is a sausage maker in Northern Ireland who has been campaigning against the use of these type of meat residues for years.
"The UK should not be using this Baader meat but as far as I am aware it is coming into the country and is being used," he said.
This perspective is supported by Matt Starling, a lawyer with the firm Geldards who specialises in regulatory issues.
"We know that there are significant (EU) exports of Baader meat, and it is fair to assume, and that's the government's view, that it is being used to replace DSM," he told BBC News.
"And that view of the government was strongly made by the minister last year and is shared, as I understand, by the FSA."
He said there was a legal inconsistency between the UK and the EU because the Commission hadn't specifically banned the Baader meat process.
"The matter hasn't been tested, but as things stand there appears to be no clear legal redress if a company does export Baader and it is used to replace the products that we were producing ourselves until they were banned last year."
When contacted by the BBC, a spokesman for the EU said that as far as the Union is concerned Baader meat is MSM.
Sausage maker Kevin McWhinney's family have been in the business for five generations - he agrees wholeheartedly with the position taken by the EU. Whether the process is called Baader meat or DSM or 3mm mince, to him it was all the same.
"The powers that be would have you think its different because it uses a low pressure - but it is the same bones, same scraps off the bones, the same machines, just with different pressure. Someone's just trying to invent a new product," he said.
Many people connected to the meat industry in Britain say the EU has "used a sledgehammer" against the UK on this issue, while letting other European countries effectively get away with continuing to sell similar products without restrictions.
Dr Duncan Campbell is one of Britain's most senior food inspectors and head of West Yorkshire Analytical Services.
"What is clear is that there is a lack of uniformity of enforcement of EU regulation - and that is the loophole that is allowing material to be counted as meat in another European member state - the same product would not be considered meat in the UK," he said.
But there is also the sense that the intense downward pressure on prices driven by supermarkets is pushing manufacturers to find the cheapest ingredients.
One EU based meat suppliers pointed out that a half kilo of sausages was selling in one supermarket for less than a euro.
It was impossible, he said, to produce meat at that price without cutting corners.
Bottled water is more expensive than this, he added.
Google's plans to launch a music-streaming service would give the record industry a welcome boost on its path to recovery, according to a digital executive at Universal Music Group.
Francis Keeling, global head of digital business at Universal Music Group, said Google's scale could turn millions more music listeners into paying subscribers.
Google is understood to be in negotiations with major music labels about launching a streaming service, similar to Spotify, later this year.
Speaking in London at the launch of industry body IFPI's annual report on Tuesday, Keeling said: "We talk about for subscription services, the need to have a funnel. Google, with its hundreds of millions of users through search, YouTube with its more than 800 million users, arguably is the biggest funnel we could have.
"Clearly if we could get consumers into a legal funnel through that route and encourage them to subscription, that would have a very positive impact on the business."
Google launched a cloud-based music player in the US in 2011 in a bid to compete directly with Apple's iTunes, which commands more than 60% of all digital sales. Last year, the service expanded to the UK, Germany and other European markets.
A move into the fast-growing music-streaming market would be hugely significant for the industry. Google's influence in the smartphone market – its Androidsoftware is activated 1m times each day – would give the music player an advantage over rivals such as Deezer, Rdio and Spotify.
Google has declined to confirm the detail of reports about its streaming player, including suggestions that its price plan would mirror the three smaller competitors. Deezer, Rdio and Spotify offer a free, ad-supported service alongside a £9.99-a-month subscription for premium users.
But Google's streaming ambitions still have stumbling blocks to overcome. Music groups remain frustrated that Google and other search engines are slow to downgrade illegal-filesharing sites, which the industry claims are visited by a third of all internet users.
However, Keeling said Universal, home to artists including Nicki Minaj and Justin Bieber, has a "great relationship" with Google.
"Google is a massive organisation with the many parts it operates, such as the search business and the device business and the music business with respect to YouTube and streaming," he said.
"Like all search engines, there is a problem; we're asking all search engines to prioritise legal services. We know that search engines are a primary route for consumers to be able to find music and hope all search engines will implement those changes."
Online subscription services, including Spotify and Rdio, are expected to have contributed more than 10% of the music industry's digital revenue for the first time in 2012 – a sign of their growing influence. They are also being quickly adopted by music fans, as the number of paying subscribers leapt by 44% last year, to 20 million people globally.
Farming leaders are urging supermarkets to stop scouring the world for the cheapest food.
At the National Farmers' Union (NFU) conference president Peter Kendall said supermarkets should source traceable products from British farmers.
Environment Secretary Owen Paterson said farmers should not be tarnished by criminals' fraudulent activities over the horsemeat scandal.
Earlier, the head of Tesco pledged to bring meat production "closer to home."
Philip Clarke, who later addressed the conference in Birmingham, told the BBC he would work more closely with British farmers in response to the horsemeat scandal.
He told the conference: "Where it is reasonable to do so, we will source from British producers. As a first step I announce that from July all of our fresh chicken must come from UK farmers. No exceptions.
Close to home
In other developments:
Furniture company Ikea said it was withdrawing wiener sausages in the UK after tests found "indications" of horse meat
A poll for the NFU suggested more than three-quarters of people wanted supermarkets to stock more food from British farms. Some 43% of the 1,000 people surveyed said they were more likely to buy food traceable from UK farms
Mr Kendall told farmers supermarkets had put "damaging pressure" on processors to force down food prices, but processors were responsible because "they should have told the retailers to get stuffed, that you can't do eight burgers for a pound".
He said: "If there's one single message that's come from the horsemeat scandal, it's that our consumers want to know their food is coming from as close as home as possible."
Environment Secretary Mr Paterson told the conference the substitution of beef for horsemeat in a number of products "had shaken consumer confidence".
Tesco's Philip Clarke says the company is bringing meat production "closer to home"
"I am determined that this criminal activity should be stopped and that anyone who has defrauded the customer must feel the full force of the law," he said.
He said out of 3,654 tests carried out on beef products in the UK, only 35 have tested positive for horsemeat, a rate of less than 1%.
Their comments came after Mr Clarke said Tesco had introduced a new testing process.
Speaking prior to his speech to the NFU, he told the BBC he could not guarantee "right now today" that all of Tesco's products contained exactly what was on the label, but said "that is our objective."
"I'm sure that we will be able to say that in the future, once the testing regime is completely in place."
He said out of 300 tests they had completed three had shown products which were "most susceptible" to horsemeat contamination. "Most of them are fine" he said, but "three is too many."
The horsemeat scandal emerged in mid-January, when Irish food inspectors announced they had found traces of horsemeat in some frozen beefburgers stocked by UK supermarkets including Tesco, Iceland and Lidl.
Mr Clarke said his supermarket's testing regime on meat to ensure it was beef was the "most comprehensive" he had seen.
As for meat production, he said they do buy some products, particularly frozen ones, out of Europe, but as "we can we'll bring it closer to home".
He added: "I hope that it doesn't mean price increases, but I can't stand here today and tell you that it won't."
Chief executive of Sainsbury's Justin King said his supermarket was committed to doubling the amount of British food it sold by 2020.
In response to Mr Clarke's remarks, Sainsbury's said all its fresh chicken had been British for a decade and it had started using British chicken in frozen chicken ready meals.
The hearing was also told that tests on hair samples indicated Maynard may have been a regular drug user up to three and a half months before his death.
"Where cricket has to be a little bit wary is if you're just a county player, the season finishes in September and then you're not playing a competitive game until April," added Vaughan.
"We have to be wary that long periods of non-competitive action can lead to boredom.
"It's a long time not to be competing and it's a long time not to be tested. I do think out-of-season and out-of-competition drug testing would be a step forward."
On average, up to 200 tests are carried out each year as part of the ECB's testing programme, which is conducted with the co-operation of the Professional Cricketers' Association (PCA) and encompasses all registered professional county cricketers.
These tests almost always take place on match days and are only likely to detect the use of performance-enhancing substances.
Vaughan, speaking at a Chance to Shine coaching programme at his old school in Sheffield, said he did not think drug taking was rife within the sport.
"If you have 400 people in any room there's bound to be one, two, three, four who would participate in the wrong side of the game," he said.
"You can't just say it's London and you certainly can't say it's Surrey, but I would say there were many talks of a party culture in and around the Surrey dressing-room over the last year or so.
"This is a very unfortunate circumstance which the game finds itself in, [and] Surrey finds itself in.
"I always think tragedies are terrible at the time but as long as you have good people around you can actually turn those tragedies into a real positive. In the Tom Maynard case, I really do think a positive outcome can come at the end."
"It's right that we use this tragedy positively, to look forward and learn lessons from it"
Mark RamprakashFormer Surrey & England batsman
Following investigations at the end of last season, Surrey have introduced a team-wide anti-drugs policy, by which all players and management are required to abide.
Meanwhile, England batsman Ian Bell said he welcomed plans to increase drug testing.
"It is important that whatever is put in place... what has happened, never happens again," he told BBC Radio 5 live.
"Obviously it's sad but hopefully with things being put in place we can stop this happening in future."
Former Surrey and England batsman Mark Ramprakash said he was, on average, tested twice in a six-month period, and was not aware of any problem with recreational drugs in the county.
"There was a young nucleus of players at Surrey who were very talented," Ramprakash told BBC Radio 5 live. "They enjoyed their cricket and they enjoyed their socialising. I hadn't heard anything about recreational drugs.
"It's fair and only natural that people ask 'could anyone have done any more to try to prevent this tragedy?' It's right that we use this tragedy positively, to look forward and learn lessons from it.
"There is fairly rigorous in-competition testing that goes on in cricket and has done for quite a long time, which tests for performance-enhancing and recreational drugs.
"I think there's only been one positive test in the last five years. That would suggest that cricket doesn't have a major problem."
PCA chief Angus Porter said he was shocked at the possible extent of Maynard's drug use but, like Vaughan, did not think the problem was widespread in the sport.
"We're not complacent but I would say the problems in cricket are reflective of the problems in society as a whole," he said.
Nick Clegg faced questions about what he knew and when on his weekly phone-in radio show on LBC
Nick Clegg has admitted that concerns over Lord Rennard 's behaviour were "in the background" when he resigned as Lib Dem chief executive in 2009.
Police have spoken to party officials about allegations of inappropriate behaviour towards women by the peer.
Mr Clegg told LBC Radio that he had wanted a change when Lord Rennard quit but the "immediate reason" for his going was "ill health".
Friends of Lord Rennard told the BBC he quit after specific health warnings.
According to the BBC's chief political correspondent Norman Smith, Lord Rennard - who denies the allegations - was told that he might only have 12 months to live if he did not radically change his lifestyle and that this was why he stood down.
In a separate development, the Lib Dems have reprimanded another peer following reports he telephoned and angrily remonstrated with one of the women who had complained to newspapers about Lord Rennard's conduct.
Aides to Mr Clegg said the Lib Dem leader regarded Lord Stoneham's conduct as "completely unacceptable".
The BBC understands the Lib Dem chief whip in the Lords, Lord Newby, spoke to Lord Stoneham to warn him over his conduct.
'General concerns'
Mr Clegg, who became leader in 2007, after the alleged incidents involving Lord Rennard took place, said of his departure as chief executive in May 2009: "Of course, these things were in the background but his ill health was the immediate reason why he stood down."
He also said: "Like any new leader of any organisation or political party, I wanted to make sure that the organisation reflected my priorities, my values.
"I felt it was time for a change at the top of the professional party."
Mr Clegg said his then chief-of-staff Danny Alexander had "challenged" and "confronted" Lord Rennard in 2008 over "general concerns" about his behaviour, and had told the peer that "this is not acceptable".
He added: "We were told at the time that the women didn't want to take the matter forward in relation to complaints."
Mr Clegg said he had not known of specific allegations until Channel 4 News broke the story last week.
An email sent to a senior aide by the Daily Telegraph shortly before the 2010 election setting out detailed allegations had not been "passed on to me".
'Abandoned'
Mr Clegg also insisted that a face-to-face conversation with then MP Sandra Gidley soon after he became leader had been "of a general nature".
I think the lesson is you've got to come clean right at the beginning, get a more independent inquiry and get the facts out there and where necessary put it right"
End QuoteMichael Fallon Consevative minister
One alleged victim, Susan - who wants to keep her surname private to avoid media intrusion - said on Tuesday that she had spoken to at least nine other women affected by incidents going back as far as 2001.
She added: "He [Mr Clegg] didn't know how to deal with it and then didn't deal with it well."
Mr Clegg told LBC on his weekly phone-in: "It distresses me immensely that women I know - they are clearly good people whom I respect - feel abandoned."
He added that the Lib Dems had shown "serious failure in the way the organisation was run", but said he had "revamped the party very considerably".
Mr Clegg said he believed in treating everyone "with respect and dignity", adding: "That clearly did not happen here, to put it mildly. There were some serious mistakes and the women were not listened to and let down."
'Fine man'
The Metropolitan Police said it was working with party officials to establish whether any criminal activity had taken place.
After meeting the officials on Tuesday, officers appealed to "anyone with information" to come forward.
Conservative business minister Michael Fallon accused the Lib Dems of "not being straight" over their handling of the allegations and changing their story.
He told BBC Radio 4's The World at One: "I think the lesson is you've got to come clean right at the beginning, get a more independent inquiry and get the facts out there and where necessary put it right. Now that hasn't happened. This has gone on far too long."
But senior Lib Dem Baroness Williams said the Lord Rennard situation had been "hopelessly exaggerated" and he was "a very fine man".
She went on to say that women in Parliament were "not treated very fairly" and described the Commons as a "very bullying place, a very masculine culture" that needed to change.
I can attest from personal experience that having somebody that you really deeply trust and care for was an extraordinary thing to have"
End QuoteJane PoynterParagon Space Development Corporation
Among those involved in the project is Jane Poynter, who spent two years locked away in a sealed ecosystem with seven other people in 1991 which she described as a "New Age Garden of Eden".
She told BBC News that the mission planners wanted the crew to consist of an older couple whose relationship would be able to withstand the stress of living in a confined environment for two years.
"I can attest from personal experience from living in Biosphere 2 that having somebody that you really deeply trusted and cared for was an extraordinary thing to have," Ms Poynter explained.
Ms Poynter, who ended up marrying one of those involved in the Biosphere 2 project, Taber Macallum, admitted that it could be "challenging" for the couple. But said that the selection process would attempt to find "resilient people that would be able to maintain a happy upbeat attitude in the face of adversity".
The plan was to choose a middle-aged couple because their health and fertility would be less affected by the radiation they would be exposed to during such a long space mission.
The couple would receive extensive training and would be able to draw on psychological support from mission control throughout the mission.
Ms Poynter's expectation is that a couple journeying to Mars would be "inspirational".
"We want the crew of vehicle to represent humanity," she said. "We want the youth of the world to be reflected in this crew and for girls as well as boys to have role models".
Space historian, Prof Christopher Riley of Lincoln University, believes that sending a couple to Mars might be a good idea.
"The idea of sending older astronauts on longer duration missions, after they have had children, has been around for a while. The reasoning is that such a long duration mission, outside of the protective magnetosphere of the Earth, could leave them infertile," he said.
"Married couples have occasionally flown in space before, on short flights, and it seemed to work well, so why not."
It takes mavericks like Tito to create pivot points in history where significant things happen"
End QuoteProf Christopher RileyLincoln University
However results emerging from the so-called Mars500 project suggests that even carefully screened individuals are likely to suffer from psychological problems from a prolonged space mission.
The mission will be a straightforward flight to the Red Planet and return without landing. This greatly reduces the cost of the mission. The Mars Inspiration team believe that it is technically possible to launch such a mission in five years' time.
The Mars Inspiration team is aiming for a January 2018 launch because it coincides with a close alignment of Mars and Earth, such that a round trip would take about a year-and-a half, or 501 days - whereas outside of this window such a trip might take two or three years .
Many believe that new technologies will need to be developed to deal with the extended periods of radiation such a trip would involve and to cope with supplying food and water for the crew.
The Mars Inspiration team says that it has carried out a feasibility study for the mission which it plans to release on Sunday. Anu Ojha, from the British National Space Centre in Leicester has seen the study.
He says that it is theoretically possible to go to Mars and back using the Dragon and Falcon Heavy systems manufactured by California-based firm SpaceX.
Loo roll crunch
But conditions would be squeezed and spartan, with no room for pressurised space suits. The report suggests that 1,360kg of dehydrated food will be enough to last the journey and the manifest includes 28kg of toilet paper for a crew of 2 for 500 days.
But the issue of radiation protection according to Mr Ojha is "glossed over" with the recognition that more work and "creative solutions" need to be explored. More work will also need to done to improve recycling technologies to convert urine into water.
The man leading the venture is Denis Tito, who paid 20 million dollars to become the first "tourist" in space. He spent six days on the International Space Station (ISS) in 2001.
The millionaire is financing part of the project but much more money needs to be raised. The organisers have not stated how much the mission will cost nor how much they need to raise, saying only that it is much cheaper than one would imagine a Mars mission to be. Ms Poynter did however confirm that a significant amount of money still needed to be raised.
Anu Ojha believes that unless the venture is 100% underwritten at this stage it won't get off the ground.
"If a bunch of billionaires have committed the approx $1-2bn required, then we could see history being made in under five years. If (at the) the press conference they say 'we have this fantastic concept but need the money - please give generously' then it's dead in the water," he told BBC News.
However Prof Riley is more optimistic. "There are lots of big ifs in trying to achieve this epic endeavour, but none which are totally insurmountable given enough money and assistance, and the will to do it," he said.
"It takes mavericks like Tito to create such pivot points in history where significant things happen, and such a trip would be as significant as Apollo 8's first circumnavigation of the Moon on Christmas Eve 1968, when the world listened in to the reflections of the first human beings to orbit another world.
"Perhaps fifty years later, on Christmas Eve 2018 we might be all tuning in to a similar broadcast from Mars. I hope so!"
The effort represents the latest development in private sector companies moving into space exploration. Last December, one of the last men on the Moon, Harrison Schmitt, told BBC News that he believed Nasa and other government run space agencies were "too inefficient" to be able to send astronauts back to the Moon.
The government, which had been so quick to produce proof that President Chavez was still alive on previous visits to Cuba for treatment, took over two months this time round.
Many suspected this was a reflection of how serious his illness had become.
The information minister's disclosure about Mr Chavez's breathing explains the president's uncharacteristic silence.
But it has also given opposition leader Henrique Capriles a chance to criticise ministers for having said a few weeks ago that Mr Chavez was talking with them and telling jokes.
Just a week ago, the government announced it was devaluing Venezuela's currency - an unpopular move that has already caused an increase in prices.
With the release of these photos, the government will be hoping to improve its popularity.
Mr Chavez is shown looking at Thursday's issue of the Cuban Communist Party newspaper Granma in some of the photos, broadcast on television by his son-in-law, Science Minister Jorge Arreaza.
The government said the photos were taken on Thursday night.
Information Minister Ernesto Villegas said that as the Venezuelan leader was breathing through a tracheal tube, it was difficult for him to speak.
However, he said he was writing down orders.
There has been widespread speculation in Venezuela about Mr Chavez's condition, with some students holding protests outside the Cuban embassy in Caracas, demanding to know his state of health.
Mr Chavez has been at the helm for 14 years and was re-elected for another six-year term in October 2011.
Shortly before making his most recent journey to Havana, Mr Chavez suggested that his supporters should consider naming his Vice President, Nicolas Maduro, as his successor.
Mr Maduro has made frequent visits to Havana to see Mr Chavez.
The Venezuelan leader is reported to have had tumours removed from his pelvic region, and has also undergone prior rounds of chemotherapy and radiation treatment.
Though there have been few details about the president's exact treatment, Mr Maduro said on Wednesday that they had been "extremely complex and tough".
The BBC is facing the prospect of further industrial action after the corporation's three main unions said they would ballot members for strike action over job losses and increased workload resulting from cost-cutting measures.
Formal notice of the ballot was given to the BBC on Tuesday and voting slips will be mailed out to members on 6 March with a closing date of 20 March, raising the prospect of further disruption to the corporation's schedules.
The industrial action is in protest at the Delivering Quality First cost-cutting measures introduced in response to the BBC's licence fee settlement in 2010.
Gerry Morrissey, the Bectu general secretary, said BBC executives were to blame for the "low morale and insecurity" among corporation staff.
"We would prefer to have a sensible conversation with BBC management about the damage done in the first year of these cuts, but instead we've had to turn up the pressure to protect thousands of members from overwork, bullying and stress," he added.
"Blame for low morale and insecurity in BBC workplaces rests firmly on the shoulders of managers who signed up to a six-year freeze in the licence fee in 2010. By committing to maintain levels of output despite a drastic reduction in real funding, they turned the BBC from a world-class broadcaster into Mission Impossible."
Michelle Stanistreet, the NUJ general secretary, said: "The NUJ's recent strike demonstrated the level of concern and anger amongst journalists about the effect of cuts at the BBC. It was disappointing that the BBC failed to properly negotiate and avert the action, but we're not prepared to sit back while our members suffer because of shortsighted policies by BBC executives.
"We won't tolerate compulsory redundancies while other vacancies are advertised, and we won't allow our members' health to suffer because of unacceptable workloads and avoidable stress."
A BBC spokesperson said: "We're surprised that the NUJ and Bectu have chosen to ballot their members over a number of new issues without formally meeting with us first to discuss them. We will be meeting with the unions next week and hope to reach a resolution, as we have said we have significant savings targets to meet and strike action will not alter this."
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An episode of BBC One drama Silent Witness that featured scenes of sexual violence broke the corporation's guidelines, the BBC Trust has ruled.
The episode culminated in a scene featuring a prison officer attacking an inmate in a toilet cubicle.
More than 600 people complained to the BBC about the programme, which was broadcast last April.
The Trust said the scenes were "too explicit for this series... in the first hour after the watershed".
It was responding to a complaint from a viewer who had tuned into watch the BBC's News at Ten but was unexpectedly confronted with the scenes after the drama overran by 90 seconds.
The viewer said he found the scenes "extremely upsetting" and "thoroughly nasty".
At the time, the episode carried a pre-programme announcement warning viewers of violent and upsetting scenes.
However, the viewer said people tuning in for the evening news could not have been expected to have been watching earlier to see the warning.
The wrong editorial judgement had been made on this occasion and this episode was not suitable for broadcast"
End QuoteBBC Trust
The scene in question - depicted as a flashback - featured a character lying in a pool of blood while his attacker was seen holding a bloodied stick.
In its ruling, the Trust said that although the actual attack was not shown, "viewers were left in no doubt that an act of sexual violence was being carried out".
It said that while the drama, now in its 15th series, was known to investigate the aftermaths of violent crimes, this episode was "noticeably darker in tone".
As there were a significant number of complaints, it concluded that the scenes were in breach of the guidelines on harm and offence as they "exceeded audience expectations for this series as they depicted a sadistic method of inflicting pain, injury and death".
In its response, BBC Vision - the department responsible for BBC drama - said the overrunning of programmes was a regular occurrence.
"Silent Witness overran the billed finish time by 90 seconds and the news was two minutes late," it said.
"This is all well within the parameters of a 'normal' programme junction and would not have triggered any extra editorial scrutiny beyond that carried out for the original schedule."
The Trust noted that although compliance procedures had been followed for the episode, it felt "the wrong editorial judgement had been made on this occasion and this episode was not suitable for broadcast".
It offered an apology to viewers who had complained and to those who had tuned in for the news and had "been taken unawares by the final scenes".
The Other Side of Jimmy Savile, broadcast on 3 October 2012 and featuring the harrowing accounts by five women of assaults by the late Jim'll Fix It presenter, was the result of a 10-month investigation between January and August last year.
When ITV's factual and current affairs creative director Alex Gardiner heard of the BBC's decision he moved into action, having worked closely before with Mark Williams-Thomas – the ex-police officer and child protection expert who worked on the Newsnight story in late 2011. (It is a small footnote in history, but one independent production company also turned down the chance to investigate Savile last year).
The budget was well within the average Exposure range of £150,000-200,000 per programme. Backed by ITV's news director Michael Jermey, they agreed they would only proceed to broadcast if the evidence for the eventual programme could be aired if Savile was still alive – the same test that then BBC news director Helen Boaden set the Newsnight team.
The investigation was a joint effort, as Williams-Thomas acknowledged when picking up the RTS awards, with ITV producer Lesley Gardiner. "I could not have done the story without her," he said.
The team working on the programme often worked weekends. "These were people who were passionate," observed Gardiner.
ITV was clearly nervous about the programme. One insurance was to use witnesses from a wide range of institutions, and only from victims who could substantiate their contact with Savile through a photograph and other evidence.
When complete, ITV took the precaution of placing the evidence before a QC, Ian Glen, who agreed it would constitute sufficient evidence for a police investigation. There was also a further twist: asking Esther Rantzen to respond to the evidence live on camera.
However, the programme was still only formally commissioned by ITV a few days before broadcast, and it was assigned a late slot at 11.15pm, instead of 10.35pm where Exposure documentaries usually run.
Nonetheless, The Other Side of Jimmy Savile attracted a 23% audience share and 2.5 million watched, when adding seven-day time-shifted viewing.
ITV naturally had no idea of the fallout that would then occur, including the toppling of a BBC director general, or the scale of Savile's abuse that would eventually be uncovered by the police investigation prompted by the documentary. As Williams-Thomas told the awards audience: "There was a rush, through the power of the media, to tell the stories."
The moral is that investigative journalism does not always have to break the bank, or end in tears. You need committed, resourceful journalists, bravery and great care.
It can transform the image of a newspaper or broadcaster, in this case signalling that ITV, once the home of World in Action, was back in business in current affairs, after a two decades of retreat. The investigation gave ITV News a head start on the story too (while the BBC was convulsed with internal strife), adding another news coverage gong at the RTS bash.
ITV knows only too well it could have been the original duo, Newnight's BBC team, Meirion Jones and Liz Mackean, picking up the RTS gongs, if executives at the BBC had backed them, or another suitable strand, say Panorama, had been encouraged to take up the Savile investigation. They didn't. And the outcome of that one bad decision is still reverberating.
Adele outsold her nearest rival, Taylor Swift's Red, by some three million copies.
Former X Factor contestants One Direction had the third and fourth best-selling albums around the world with their first two records Up All Night and Take Me Home, with 4.5 million and 4.4 million copies sold respectively.
There were two other British acts in the top 10 - Rod Stewart's Merry Christmas, Baby was at number seven and Grammy winners Mumford and Sons' Babel was at nine.
Gotye's mega-hit Somebody That I Used To Know was the second biggest-selling single globally, with 11.8 million purchases.
Psy's YouTube smash Gangnam Style sold 9.7 million units, with Fun's We Are Young just behind on 9.6 million.
The IFPI's report also showed that download sales represented around 70% of overall digital music revenue.
"I think it's more than a blip. What you've got is an entirely different recorded music industry, compared to the last time the figures went up annually, because we now have a market which is very heavily digital.
"In some markets, including the US, more than half of recorded music sales occur digitally, whether it's downloads or streaming.
"In big parts of the world, there were no revenues coming in at all really. Now those very important emerging markets like Russia, Brazil, India and China show the industry is at least starting to see some revenues there."
Subscription streaming accounts for 10%, while mobile ringtones and ad-funded services like YouTube and Vevo made up the difference.
Although the music industry was showing signs of recovery, the IFPI said there were still "major hurdles that need to be addressed to unlock the huge potential for further growth".
It said internet piracy still had a seriously impact on the industry, estimating that nearly a third of all internet users regularly access unlicensed sites to download music.
The organisation recommended that companies stop advertising on illegal music sites and urged search engine providers to prioritise search results relating to legal services.
"Our markets remain rigged by illegal free music," said IFPI chief executive Frances Moore.
"This is a problem where governments have a critical role to play, in particular by requiring more co-operation from advertisers, search engines, ISPs and other intermediaries.
"These companies' activities have a decisive influence in shaping a legitimate digital music business."
English cricket bosses are planning to step up testing for recreational drugs following the death of Tom Maynard.
According to post-mortem examination evidence presented at an inquest, the Surrey batsman was high on cocaine and ecstasy when he was electrocuted before being hit by a train last June.
The inquest heard that tests on hair samples indicated Maynard may have been a regular drug user up to three-and-a-half months before his death.
Professional Cricketers' Association chief Angus Porter, who believes cricket does not have a drug problem, told BBC Sport: "More testing will improve our chances of helping players with a problem which is as much societal as it is sporting."
On average, up to 200 tests are carried out each year as part of the England & Wales Cricket Board's (ECB) testing programme, which encompasses all registered professional county cricketers.
These almost always take place on match days and are only likely to detect the use of performance-enhancing substances.
Last season, one player - Somerset's Pakistan spinner Abdur Rehman -
tested positive for cannabis
during an in-competition test and was handed a 12-week ban.
England international players are also tested as part of the International Cricket Council's anti-doping programme, and none has yet tested positive.
The ECB and PCA have recently agreed to develop an out-of-competition testing programme to encompass recreational drugs, and both bodies are holding talks aimed at introducing more out-of-competition testing of players' hair samples, which can reveal whether they have used recreational drugs in the previous three months.
This would follow the example of the Football Association and Rugby Football Union, which have both introduced measures that go beyond the stipulations of the
Wada (World Anti-Doping Agency)
code by testing for recreational drugs away from match days.
Any player found to have taken a recreational drug would be offered counselling and support in the first instance, with suspensions only applied to repeat offenders, Porter explained.
"We have a comprehensive programme of testing, in and out of competition for performance-enhancing drugs - very much in line with the Wada code - and also testing for recreational drugs," he added.
"What we are now in discussions with the ECB on is whether we need to extend the testing for recreational drugs to out of competition and I think we both think that is a good idea.
"We are working on plans for that and investigating the practicality, following sports such as rugby and football which have done similar things.
"We all think that the use of recreational drugs out of competition needs to be thought of very differently from performance-enhancing.
"The purpose of the taker is very different - they are not cheating and need to be thought of differently and it is too easy for people to confuse this."
Cardiff-born Maynard, son of former Glamorgan and England batsman Matthew Maynard, moved counties from his native Glamorgan to Surrey in 2011.
The 23-year-old was found dead near Wimbledon Park station shortly after 05:00 BST on 18 June 2012.
The inquest heard on Tuesday
that Maynard, who had been tipped as a future England international, was electrocuted on a railway line before being struck by a train, as he tried to evade police after driving while drunk and high on drugs.
A post-mortem examination showed he was nearly four times the legal alcohol limit to drive and had also taken cocaine and ecstasy in the form of MDMA after a night out with his two flatmates in Wandsworth, south London.
Following investigations at the end of last season, Surrey have introduced a team-wide anti-drugs policy, by which all players and management are required to abide.
A statement issued by the ECB and Surrey after the verdict read: "While the ECB accepts that recreational drug use is a part of modern society, we do not condone it and will take all reasonable steps to prevent its use within the game."
On Thursday, the PCA is inviting 24 young county cricketers to its annual "Rookie Camp" where they will be be given talks on issues including safe drinking, anti-doping, anti-corruption, and health and well-being.
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