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     1        entirely different press release, I don't know.
     2
     3   Q.   The point is this, Ms. Steel, remember that document I
     4        showed you earlier which said the people got involved in
     5        the group by coming along to its weekly meetings and where
     6        they can get involved in planning campaigns; do you
     7        remember that?
     8        A.  Yes.
     9
    10   Q.   The people at this meeting are mostly what I call old
    11        hands, people who have been in the group for some
    12        considerable time by this stage.  That is to say,
    13        Mr. Morris?
    14        A.  Except Vibes and Mark.
    15
    16   Q.   Except Vibes and Mark exactly?
    17        A.  Yes.
    18
    19   Q.   And this is a planning meeting; is it not?
    20        A.  No, it was a regular.
    21
    22   Q.   For the anti-McDonald's campaign of 1990?
    23        A.  No, it was a regular London Greenpeace meeting that
    24        took place every week at 5, Caledonia Road to discuss
    25        anything which anybody wanted to bring up.
    26
    27   Q.   And it has got a lot more people at it, including old
    28        hands, than we see at the vast majority of these meetings
    29        throughout these notes?
    30        A.  I cannot account for why people have, you know, turned
    31        up at meetings.  It could just be complete chance.  I mean,
    32        I was going to the meetings, most of the meetings, so it
    33        was not like I suddenly turned up out of the blue just to
    34        so I could discuss McDonald's.
    35
    36   Q.   They are all there because the next item in the group's
    37        campaign agenda, Ms. Steel, are the anti-McDonald's events
    38        of October 1990.  That is right, is it not?
    39        A.  No, that is not right.  I am quite sure Mr. Morris, for
    40        example, would not have come along to take part in the
    41        planning of the next anti-McDonald's events, because he was
    42        not interested in the anti-McDonald's events.
    43
    44   Q.   Then can we move please to 30th August?
    45        A.  And I was just coming along because I came to most of
    46        the meetings.
    47
    48   Q.   30th August?
    49        A.  And I expect that is true for most of the other
    50        people.  I mean, as I say, I would make a point on this,
    51        that you are picking out these various things that are
    52        mentioned about McDonald's, the meeting would have gone on
    53        for quite a while and there would have been lots of other
    54        things discussed as well, which your private investigators
    55        were not interested in recording, because they were not
    56        will to find out about other campaigns.  So they have not
    57        noted them.
    58
    59   Q.   Did anybody in the group during August and September 1990
    60        say, "Well, we have broadened the focus of the fayre,

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