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Borough D E M OC R A C Y In this issue – Help shape your community, recycling news, ‘get online’ tips and prepare for winter Your magazine from Reigate & Banstead Borough Council Autumn 2015
2 Get in touch www.reigate-banstead.gov.uk
It’s easy to report,
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It’s quick and easy to make payments and
bookings and to request Reigate & Banstead
services on our new website. Payments
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and forms customers need most often directly from the homepage.
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www.reigate-banstead.gov.uk Contents 3
Welcome e Year Plan
From Cllr Victor Broad, up for a free internet course opened Fiv
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Leader of Reigate & Banstead up a whole new world for one of our
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Borough Council residents and how you can save your
valuable time by doing more online with P
My colleagues in the our new website (pages 6-7).
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weather. Pages 10-11 feature winter
taking an active interest in what’s going checklists and a resident’s tips on
on locally. On pages 8 and 9 we look at preparing for winter. Plus, one family
how residents shape their communities shares its experiences of keeping fit for Members of the
– from volunteering in the countryside, free in the local park.
Council’s Executive:
to taking part in local consultations and L-R, front row: Cllr Allen Kay,
Finally, look out for our new symbols Deputy Leader of the Council,
even becoming a councillor or member Cllr Victor Broad, Leader of the
of our Youth Council. in Borough News representing the Council
priorities from our Five Year Plan: Middle row: Cllrs Natalie
These days, communities aren’t people, place and organisation. Each Bramhall, Cllr Ros Mill, Cllr Rita
just about meeting people face to feature page includes a symbol, so you Renton, Cllr Dr Lynne Hack
face. Many of us are part of online can see how everything the Council Back row: Cllr James Durrant, Cllr Graham
communities too. Find out how signing does links to one of our priorities.
Knight, Cllr Eddie Humphreys
Not pictured: Cllr Tony Schofield
Contents
4 News 8 How you can help shape 11 Staying fit and well
your community Our parks make it easy to keep fit
6 Save time – do it online Be part of the democratic for free
Find out what you can do on our process
new-look website 12 Recycle, recycle, recycle
10 Keep well this winter Take our tour around the home to
7 Help to get online Simple actions can help you see what else you can recycle
Not on the web yet? There is plenty keep warm and well
of help available to get online 14 What’s on
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Volunteering Keep fit for free Recycle more
4 News www.reigate-banstead.gov.uk
News
Electoral registration canvass – have you replied?
We have sent every household in the borough a form with details
of the electors registered at the property, as part of the annual
canvass. This is so we can check that everyone who is entitled to
register to vote is registered and to invite those who are entitled to
New Tadworth Leisure and vote but who haven’t yet registered, to do so.
Community Centre to open its doors Please respond to this form now if you haven’t already. Canvassers
The new Tadworth Leisure and Community Centre will be visiting homes for which we haven’t had a response over the
is opening its doors to the public in the coming coming weeks. You can respond online at www.registerbyinternet.
weeks, providing fantastic new sports facilities. com/reigate. The form details other ways you can reply.
It boasts a 25 metre, six-lane swimming pool, If you’ve moved or are a first-time
teaching pool, gym, dance and exercise studio, voter you will need to register online at
sports hall, five-a-side football pitches, community www.gov.uk/register-to-vote. It only
space, café, crèche and wet and dry changing takes a few minutes – all you need
rooms. A new youth centre adjoins it. is your National Insurance number
A celebratory community event will be held (date to and the rest of the information you're
be announced) with activities including free taster asked for, you’ll already know.
sessions and demonstrations.
Keep an eye on www.reigate-banstead.gov.
uk/prestonregeneration or join the Preston Redhill WW1 hero honoured
regeneration Facebook group for regular updates.
Residents are invited to attend the unveiling of
a commemorative stone laid to honour Second
Lieutentant Rupert Price Hallowes VC. Born in
Redhill in 1881, Rupert Hallowes was awarded
the Victoria Cross for his ‘most conspicuous
bravery and devotion to duty’ during the fighting
at Hooge, Belgium in September 1915. The
Victoria Cross is the highest military decoration
awarded for valour in the face of the enemy.
The Mayor will unveil the stone in Memorial Park at 12pm on
25 September, the centenary of the battle for which he won
his medal. All are welcome to attend.
in brief...
■ Councillors’ ■ Could you help a young ■ Calling 55s and over
allowances person facing homelessness? Why not join in this year’s Living & Ageing Well
Members’ Allowance Scheme Step by Step supported lodgings Week (28 September-2 October). Take part in
payments are published service helps young people (16- activities to help you keep healthy, age well and
annually. To see the payments 21) by placing them in safe and stay independent. From sport and fitness to
made to councillors in 2014/5, caring homes. It is looking for hosts film screenings, Pilates and cookery lessons,
search ‘members allowances’ in Reigate & Banstead. Training, there’s something for everyone. Visit our
on our website or request guidance and a monthly payment is website and search ‘living and ageing well’.
by email to democratic. provided. Visit www.stepbystep.
services@reigate- org.uk or call 07843 261350. ■ Retired with time on your hands?
banstead.gov.uk. Redhill Artisans are looking for likeminded
■ Catching the bus? people who enjoy being outdoors and helping
■ Do you run a small If you use the bus to get around, with community projects.
business? check if your route has been affected Meeting on Friday mornings at Redhill Bowling
Find out what support and by Surrey County Council’s recent Club, the Artisans turn their hands to jobs
opportunities we offer small changes to routes and timetables. New around the bowling green and clubhouse. You’ll
businesses. Watch our new timetables are available from www. receive free club social membership in return.
YouTube video at www. surreycc.gov.uk/buses, at relevant More information? Call Helen Dredge
reigate-banstead.gov.uk/ bus stops and by calling Traveline on on 01737 276430 or David Cooper on
businesssupport 0871 200 2233 (call charges apply). 01737 276103.
www.reigate-banstead.gov.uk News 5
Dig it!
If you’ve always wanted to grow
your own fruit or vegetables but
don’t have room at home, why
not rent an allotment from us? We
have 24 allotment sites across the
borough, some with plots available
and some with waiting lists.
An allotment comes complete with
fresh air, a healthy lifestyle and
the chance to mix with likeminded
people. To start ‘growing your
own’, enquire about an allotment
Shops and homes shaping up in Merstham today: email allotments@reigate-
banstead.gov.uk, visit our website
New community facilities, shops and homes are taking shape in Merstham as or call 01737 276000.
part of the multi-million pound regeneration of Portland Drive.
A new community centre at the junction of Portland Drive and Bletchingley Road
will house a library, youth centre, training rooms, café, public IT resources and
drop-in advice facilities. The restaurant units will be home to an Indian restaurant,
a fish and chip shop and a takeaway pizza outlet.
A new Morrisons M Local convenience store is being built on the former Iron
Horse pub site, along with a pharmacy, dry cleaners and bookmakers. Ten
shared equity flats will be built above to provide more affordable homes.
The regeneration, a joint venture with Raven Housing Trust and Surrey
County Council, should be ready by next summer.
Keep up to date with progress at www.reigate-banstead.gov.uk/
mersthamregeneration.
Search for stars
Young people who love to sing, dance or act are invited to take
part in Star for a Night 2016.
How are we doing? Star for a Night is about giving youngsters (aged 11-18) the
Latest results from our twice yearly online residents’ chance to develop their talents, benefit from free professional
survey are now out. Here’s what residents told us: training and have a great time
performing on stage.
• 87% are satisfied with the local area
• 82% feel safe living in the borough Auditions are in January.
Rehearsals follow in the
• Safe neighbourhoods, good health spring and all participants
services, job prospects and good roads/ perform in the final shows at
transport are the most important factors in the Harlequin Theatre, Redhill
making somewhere a good place to live over the Easter holidays.
• Clean spaces, recycling, parks, open
Visit our website, email
spaces and playgrounds are the most
catherine.gibson@reigate-
important services we provide.
banstead.gov.uk or call
Thanks to all who participated. We run surveys 01737 276125 for more
and consultations regularly. Follow us on Twitter information.
@reigatebanstead for alerts about future ones.
6 Get connected www.reigate-banstead.gov.uk
Save time – do it online
Our new-look website makes it simple for you to do the things
you want to on a phone, tablet, laptop or PC. Apply and pay for
services and report issues at a time and place that suits you.
Payments Bins and recycling Planning
Make Sign up to our garden Search for
payments for waste service, or comment
parking fines, book a bulky waste on planning
council tax, business rates and collection, report a missed bin applications, book and pay for
invoices. You can pay planning or order a replacement. Find out pre-application advice and make
application fees here too. what you can recycle and where. your planning application online.
Find other
search
things through
our improved
search facility.
Payments Bins and recycling Planning Fact
Research
£ shows that
70% of
Benefits Council tax Register to vote
residents now
prefer to self-
serve online.
Benefits Council tax Register to vote
Apply for Register for Register to vote or
housing benefit council tax, tell us change your details
or a council tax if you have moved on the Electoral
reduction, find out your housing or about another Register. You can
benefit payment dates and report change of circumstances. Pay also apply to opt out
a change in circumstances. your bill or check your balance. of the Open Register.
‘Where I live’ search
Simply enter your postcode or address into our 'Where I
live' search to find a wealth of information about your local
area and services.
• My house: check your bin collection dates, council tax charges, Commenting on the new
councillors, nearby planning applications and tree preservation website, Maureen Moon from
orders and more. Chipstead said:
“I very much prefer the new design
• My maps: choose between a map or aerial photograph and think the format is hugely
view to see locations of local services, such as doctors and improved over the old site.”
dentists, as well as ward boundaries and recycling centres.
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even not having one, need not stop you
enjoying the enormous benefits of the internet.
There is plenty of support available.
Get online at your local library
Surf the web and check your emails at
Surrey’s libraries. Computers are free to
use for library members (just take proof
of identity and address to join). Staff can
help you get started or book a training
session with a computer buddy. Visit
your library, call 0300 200 1001 or visit
www.surreycc.gov.uk/libraries to
find out more.
We caught up with Pauline
Build your confidence Walton from Reigate to see how
Merstham Community Facility in Portland getting online has helped her and
Drive runs free courses and an IT drop- her mum Lorna.
in with ‘IT Buddies’ on hand to help. “The trainer was so patient, I needn’t have
Pop in, phone 01737 645217 or visit been nervous. Since doing the Learn
www.mcft.org.uk. my way course, I’ve been using email
The Meeting Point Internet Café in and don’t have to rely on help to use the
Marbles Way, Tadworth, run by Raven computer at work. It’s also been great
Housing Trust 01737 272421, is open catching up with friends on Facebook -
alternate Thursdays, offering free I’ve even tracked down old school friends
internet access plus help with online that way. Mum can’t always get out by
benefit applications. herself as she’s partially disabled so she
finds shopping online really helpful.”
Over 50? Join Banstead or Woodhatch
Community Centres to use their internet
cafés. Tuition is available. Small fee
applies. Contact the centre for details: Are you ready for Universal Credit?
Woodhatch 01737 221030, Banstead
From February, Universal Credit will replace many current benefits for
01737 361712.
working age households. Most claims will need to be made online and
If you are a social housing tenant, money will be paid monthly directly into claimants’ bank accounts.
contact your landlord as most run their Get ready
own sessions to help you get online. • Get advice to help you budget and plan ahead.
East Surrey College also runs a range of
• Get a bank account.
IT courses. Call 01737 772611 or visit
www.esc.ac.uk. • Set up a Direct Debit to help with budgeting and to
take the worry out of paying bills on time.
If you have a home computer, www.
• Get online as most claims will need to be made online.
learnmyway.com provides free online
courses to help you develop digital skills For more information visit www.gov.uk/universal-credit.
to make the most of the online world. For help with budgeting and details of basic bank accounts,
contact the Money Advice Service free on 0300 500 5000 or
Worried about staying safe online? www. visit www.moneyadviceservice.org.uk.
getsafeonline.com has some great tips.
8 Democracy www.reigate-banstead.gov.uk
How you can help sh
There are many ways you can help shape your borough, from
volunteering in your community to making sure you vote. Here is
a taste of how you can get involved – it’s easier than you think.
Volunteer Register to vote Tell us your views
If you like a hands-on approach Local councillors make decisions We regularly run consultations asking
we have plenty of volunteering about issues that affect our daily lives for views on important issues that
opportunities. Join one of the local – parks, planning, housing, car parks may affect you or your community,
conservation groups that work with and much more. But you must be from improvements to your local
us to manage our parks and open registered to vote in order to choose playground and changes to planning
spaces, help at one of our community who represents you. policy to our regular residents’
centres or become a volunteer steward surveys about the borough and the
at the Harlequin Theatre and Cinema. council’s services (see page 5).
To find out more contact kamal. Your views count, so make sure you
mehmood@reigate-banstead.gov. have your say. Our consultations
uk or call 01737 276026. are advertised on our website and
To find out about other volunteering Twitter – follow @reigatebanstead
opportunities in the borough to keep up to date.
contact Volunteer Centre Reigate
& Banstead on 01737 762115 or
visit www.reigateandbanstead
volunteercentre.org
Contact your councillor
Your local councillors can raise
issues on your behalf. Some run
surgeries where you can chat face to
face. Find out who your councillors
are by using the ‘Where I live’ tool on
our website.
Horley resident, Catherine McNab explains what she and
her five year old son Alasdair love about volunteering:
“We started volunteering for Horley Conservation Group as we
wanted to do something to help look after our local green spaces.
We've cleared overgrown footpaths, cut back invasive plant species,
litter picked, planted trees and built invertebrate shelters. Alasdair
loves all the different tools and getting a little mucky; he is so proud at
the end of each task looking back at what we've achieved.”
www.reigate-banstead.gov.uk Democracy 9
hape your community
Be a councillor Did you know you can ask a question
at Full Council meetings? Search Be Mini Mayor for the day
Perhaps you are already involved in ‘ask a question’ on our website to
local issues and want to take the next find out how. One lucky young resident has
step or want a rewarding way to help the chance to become Mini
your local community. Talk to your Mayor for the day. Design a
local councillor about what becoming Meet the Mayor Christmas card depicting a place
a councillor involves or visit in the borough for the chance
Councillor Mrs Joan Spiers,
www.beacouncillor.org.uk to accompany the Mayor at
previously Leader of the council,
Reigate’s annual Christmas
Aged 13-19? Our Youth Council is is this year’s Mayor. She is
Extravaganza on 5 December
always looking for new members. supported by Deputy Mayor,
and then help switch on the
It meets monthly to ensure that Councillor David Powell.
town’s Christmas lights. For
young people's voices are heard on The Mayor is the Queen’s details on how to enter visit our
the issues that affect them. Email representative locally and has website or keep an eye on our
youthcouncil@reigate-banstead. a non-political role to support social media feeds.
gov.uk to find out more. the borough by acting as host
to distinguished visitors, giving
talks at schools and other
organisations and attending
hundreds of functions and official
openings each year. You can
invite the Mayor to attend your
event via our website.
Youth Council members litter pick in Redhill
See democracy in action
Ever wonder what happens at a
council meeting? Come to one. Most
committee meetings at the Town
Hall, Reigate are open to the public.
Or watch from the comfort of your
own home – our Council, Executive
and Planning Committee meetings
are broadcast via our website.
Search ‘webcast’ on our website to
Cllr Mrs Joan Spiers
watch a meeting live or recorded.
10 Health and wellbeing www.reigate-banstead.gov.uk
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Some simple -2 0 20 weather emergency? Do you know:
actions can help. how to turn off your water,
gas and electricity supplies
Keep well emergency procedures for
• Ask your pharmacist for advice and stock up on medication. your children’s school(s)
• Get the seasonal flu jab.
your workplace’s emergency
• Eat regular hot meals and drink hot drinks. procedures
Keep warm how to tune into your local
• Stay active – even light activity helps to keep you warm. radio station
• Keep your home warm and insulate it properly. family contact arrangements
• Wrap up warm – remember to wear hats, gloves and scarves. in an emergency if elderly
or vulnerable neighbours
Keep safe need help?
• Check you have key items at home – torches, long life food,
a battery powered radio, salt/grit, sandbags and a shovel.
• In bad weather don’t travel unless you have to. Help in a power cut
• Please look out for vulnerable or elderly neighbours. If you’re 60+, or have a disability, are blind
Visit www.healthysurrey.org.uk for more on keeping well or visually impaired, are chronically sick,
this winter. dependent on medical equipment or have a
young baby, sign up to UK Power Networks
Priority Service Register (see table for details).
You will receive text/phone updates and a
priority number to call if there is a power cut.
Useful contacts
Organisation Phone Reigate
Floodline resident Tim
Environment Agency - www.gov.uk - local
0345 988 1188 Leask, 60,
flooding and sign up for flood warnings
shares his
www.nationalfloodforum.org.uk – 01299 403055
top tips for
information on flooding and how to protect preparing for
homes winter:
www.highways.gov.uk - road safety issues 0300 123 4000
• stock up on food essentials
on motorways and major traffic news
www.reigate-banstead.gov.uk - general 01737 276000 • have your central heating
informatio n during severe weather boiler serviced
www.surreycc.gov.uk - road gritting, slippery 03456 009 009 • buy anti-freeze and de-icer for the car
pavements, fallen trees, flooding on roads
• get a flu jab
www.thameswater.co.uk - burst pipes, 0800 316 9800
leaks and public sewers • wear stout shoes when it’s icy
www.ukpowernetworks.co.uk - power 0800 316 3105 • keep warm – there’s no such thing
cuts and power issues as bad weather, just wrong clothes.www.reigate-banstead.gov.uk Health and wellbeing 11
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with our guidance – visit www.
food.gov.uk to check the food
hygiene ratings awarded to
everywhere selling or serving food
in the borough.
If healthy eating is important to
you when you’re dining out, look
out for ‘Eat Out, Eat Well’ Award
winners. The awards encourage
places catering for the public
to offer healthier menu options.
Visit www.surreycc.gov.uk
and search ‘Eat Out Eat Well for
consumers’ for details.
Keeping fit for free Your kids can also let off steam
in the park’s play area, complete
Being active every day helps keep us
with toddler and older children’s
healthy; did you know that your local
play zones.
park or outdoor gym offer ways to
keep fit for free? Reigate’s Priory Park also offers
plenty for those wanting to get active.
Try out Redhill’s revamped Memorial
No-cost activities include self-guided
Park, with its sports zone and trim
walks (leaflets available on our
trail – a flat, circular jogging/walking
website), geo-caching, free use of
route with double exercise
the skate park, tennis and
stations for working out
table tennis courts and
your arms, abs and legs.
football pitches. Check
It’s suitable for everyone
regardless of fitness level.
our website for other parks
in your area.
Breathe easy
If teamwork is your thing, get If poor air quality affects your life,
your friends together for five-a- airAlert can help. On sign up,
side football, basketball and other ball
No time to keep active? airAlert sends you free messages
games and tennis on the refurbished Visit www.nhs.uk/change4life (email, text or voicemail) if you have
multi-use games area and courts. for simple ideas on fitting more respiratory health problems and
No booking or payment required. activity into your life. are affected by air pollution levels,
helping you plan your activities and
take precautionary action. Register
Redhill mother of two, Lucie today at www.airalert.info or call
Jurado, uses Memorial Park to on 01737 276403.
help keep her family fit for free. STOP PRESS: airAlert mobile
‘We cycle over to play tennis and app launches autumn 2015.
football. My sons, Ellis and Reuben, love
the play area too. And I can jog round
the edge of the park for a good work
out. It’s an easy trip out for families’.12 Recycling www.reigate-banstead.gov.uk
Recycle, recycle,
We all love recycling. But do you think you do all you can?
Take our recycling challenge to see what items in your
home could start a new life as something else.
Recycling in the bathroom
– go on the hunt for:
• toothpaste boxes
• toilet roll tubes
• plastic shampoo and conditioner bottles
• shower gel containers
• liquid soap bottles
• bleach and bathroom cleaner bottles.
In the kitchen, things often
overlooked for recycling are:
• food waste All these items (except textiles,
• washing up liquid bottles shoes and batteries) can be
recycled from home using our
• bleach and surface cleaner bottles – minus the triggers recycling collection service. For
• washing liquid and conditioner bottles textile and shoe recycling, visit
our growing number of textile
• aerosols, tins of furniture polish and air fresheners banks across the borough. Visit
• dishwasher tablet and kitchen wrap boxes. www.reigate-banstead.gov.uk for their locations and
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Let us recycle your
Recycling in the garden waste
bedroom: If you’re left with green waste that
you don’t know what to do with,
• old clothes and pairs
why not recycle it with our garden
of shoes/boots
waste collection service? For £50 per
• empty tissue boxes wheelie bin a year, we’ll collect your
• old magazines grass cuttings, old leaves and other
green waste every other week. Sign
• empty hairspray and up at www.reigate-banstead.gov.
deodorant aerosols. uk. Your green waste is recycled to
make fertiliser for agricultural use.
Get a ‘bag habit’
From 1 October 2015 we won’t
collect plastic carrier bags from
your mixed recycling. And from
In the living room 5 October, in England you will
be charged 5p for every single-
– look for: use carrier bag you need. So get
• air freshener aerosols ahead of the game; start using
re-useable carrier bags.
• newspapers and magazines
• old batteries
• envelopes. Recycling for flats
Our roll out of improved
recycling arrangements for
those in flats is underway. We’re
writing to you or your flat’s property
manager ahead of introducing new
recycling facilities where you live.
Recycle it right! Christmas collection day changes
Recycling contamination – caused by the wrong things being Bank Holidays over Christmas and New Year
put into mixed recycling wheelie bins or paper/card collection mean we will have to change some of our
boxes – can result in whole lorry loads of recycling having to be collection days to make sure we can collect your
scrapped and treated as general refuse. This can then end up recycling and refuse over the festive period. Follow
as landfill. So please ‘recycle it right’ by putting the right items us on Twitter @reigatebanstead and check
in your recycling. Visit www.reigate-banstead.gov.uk for a our website from early December for details of
reminder of what each recycling container is for. changes and how they affect you.14 What's on www.reigate-banstead.gov.uk
What’s on Reigate and Banstead Remembers World War I
Our World War I centenary events continue. Keep up to
date at www.reigate-banstead.gov.uk/ww1
Thursday 24 September, 7.30 for 8pm Wedneday 11 November, 11am
An illustrated talk on the Battle of Loos Armistice Day services
This illustrated talk covers the events leading up to the Remembrance services with a two minute silence.
battle and lessons learnt from it. Free for Horley History Readings by local school children to commemorate the
Society members, £1 for non-members. borough’s war dead for 1915. All welcome.
Methodist Church Hall, Victoria Road, Horley, RH6 7AS War memorials around the borough.
Belfry Armistice Day Remembrance Service
Friday 25 September, 12-2pm All are welcome to take part in this annual event to remember
Laying of the VC stone in memory of Second the service men and women killed in conflicts past and present.
Lieutenant Rupert Price Hallowes VC The Belfry Shopping Centre, Redhill
All are welcome to this event where the Mayor will unveil
a commemorative stone in memory of Rupert Hallowes. Sunday 22 November, 3pm
Read about his story on page 4 . Filming of the War Horse movie: talk and film showing
Memorial Park, Redhill A talk by Andy Robertshaw, a historical adviser on the
production, followed by the film screening. Tickets £5 from
Saturday 17 October, 2-4pm the Harlequin Theatre or the Box Office, 01737 276500.
Discovering World War I with Reigate & Banstead Harlequin Theatre, Warwick Quadrant, Redhill, RH1 1NN
Find out about the borough and its residents’ role in the
war, learn how to research your family history and talk More events
to experts. Also includes children’s activities, period Visit www.reigate-banstead.gov.uk/events
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event for all ages. Free. taking place all over the borough or to publicise
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