Just over 31 years after the event, her son decided to trace his birth mother - Ms Short having notified the adoption agency that she wanted to be contacted if ever her child desired it.

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You'll get different opinions about when those problems really started, but you can directly trace last week's launch event back to one date almost three years ago: April 9th, 2010.

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The event was the first of its type on the ferries, which use a route that can trace its history back to the 14th Century.

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