The charity is currently funding some Leeds-based research into how artificial hips are worn away during the "swing phase" of walking, which it is hoped will highlight the benefits of different materials, and lead to recommendations to improve surgical techniques or design.

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Mr Netanyahu, with an eye to the middle-of-the-road voter, could conceivably swing the pendulum leftwards again in the months ahead, perhaps carrying out the next phase of withdrawal prescribed by Wye and softening his refusal to free more political prisoners.

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