In an interview with BBC Wales, Mr Pugh said the assembly government wanted "to build a consensus on the Welsh language...which is why we've decided to do this in a one-stage process rather than two".

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In the second stage, lactic-acid molecules are linked into long chains, or polymers, in chemical-reaction vessels, to produce PLA. What Dr Lee and his colleagues have succeeded in doing, as they report in Biotechnology and Bioengineering, is to produce PLA directly, in a one-stage process, in bacteria.

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That led to him designing the apes seen in the Dawn of Man sequence of 2001: A Space Odyssey, a laborious two-year process that at one stage saw comedian Ronnie Corbett participate in make-up tests.

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In the process, Parliament has been misled and one of Africa's forgotten conflicts is centre-stage.

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