This has become particularly important because of developments in the European Union over the past 12 months.

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The big picture has become particularly important this year, as these figures now feed directly into the debate about Scotland's constitutional future, looking towards the independence referendum near certain within the next five years.

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Music has become particularly important to MySpace.

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Increasingly that has become the practice in a number of countries, particularly in the important patent countries of France, Germany, Holland and England and Wales.

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