Her doctor is Stephen Hood, a consultant gastroenterologist at Aintree hospital.

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The reason companies are sluggish, according to the Tees Valley Chamber of Commerce Manager, Stephen Hood, is that they have grown weary of government invitations to partnership.

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Stephen Hood stood in line outside an Apple store the first weekend the iPad went on sale, but by the time the 35-year-old resident of Menlo Park, Calif.

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