For that they will need some kind of micro loan and Ms Crawley says she will need help to ease her off benefits and hopefully into her own business.

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Ms Polese used to be in charge of marketing Sun Micro systems' Java software project.

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Ms Mather is not just skilled at using and programming the Arduino micro-controller.

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Accounts on Twitter, the micro-blogging site, from other people saying they were passengers on the plane corroborated Ms. Abney's account.

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