Rep. Upton, now Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, has since offered to hold a new hearing to consider removing the ban.

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The forums on 17 and 18 July will be held at the zoo's Cedar House building on Caughall Road, Upton.

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Photographer Simon Upton, who shot Haslam's country house for our April 2011 issue, has known Haslam for a long time, having photographed a lot of his work.

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