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"If you don’t have a laptop to start off with or you’re a musician in an environment where there is no internet connectivity then how will you participate?" she told the BBC.

Separation of one kind of substance from another may sound straightforward as a topic of scientific investigation, but separation techniques are essential right across the economy as most things found in nature or manmade start off impure.

He’s most widely known for his experimental choreography, and the exhibition’s curators are smart to start off with this rousing, engulfing example of it.

“They took me down to see Max. A lot of people stopped me to start off with, but I managed to get to him and sit down with him. I said ‘Max, Mum’s here’.

Conversely much of Scotland is likely to start off cloudy before skies clear from the north overnight.