Dairy Crest said Midlands Co-operative Dairies, which processes more than a million pints of milk a day, would be consolidated into its existing dairy operations and it would continue using milk from the 285 Midlands' farm suppliers.

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The latest attack caused a three-day service outage at the bank - also called the National Agricultural Co-operative Federation - and caused the records of some credit card customers to be deleted.

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His comments came a day after Vice-President Nicolas Maduro said Mr Chavez had finished "the post-operative period".

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And Richard Sosis, an anthropologist at the University of Connecticut, has already done some research which suggests that the long-term co-operative benefits of religion outweigh the short-term costs it imposes in the form of praying many times a day, avoiding certain foods, fasting and so on.

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