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     1        in antiMcDonald's activities".  So it may be that he kept
     2        bringing up about antiMcDonald's stuff and that gave you
     3        some kind of impression that was the main focus of the
     4        group?
     5        A.   Sorry, I have lost the question.
     6
     7   Q.   Mr. Gravett was at this meeting.  You have got him down as
     8        the main activist in the antiMcDonald's campaign.  So would
     9        you accept that it may be that he was bringing up that
    10        McDonald's matters, such as the fair, should be discussed
    11        at this meeting about the group's future, and you took that
    12        as the whole group being still heavily -- | cannot remember
    13        what the phrase you used was -- prominent within the group?
    14        A.   If the future of the group was to be discussed a main
    15        topic would have been the antiMcDonald's campaign.
    16
    17   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Can you remember now?  You have noted the
    18        next open meeting was discussed and it is common ground,
    19        apparently, that was 25th January, 1990.  "A topic had to
    20        be picked", and a little lower down, you have noted "25th
    21        January 1990, McDonald's campaign meeting."  Can you
    22        remember just what was said which made you note that or are
    23        you reliant on your note?
    24        A.   I am relying on my note, sir.  Something would have
    25        been said for me to put that down in that context.
    26
    27   Q.   He did not go to the meeting, he cannot remember what was
    28        said.  I have to say, I think there is a limited help in
    29        asking "may something have happened", unless witness said,
    30        no, it definitely did not for one reason or another.
    31
    32   MS. STEEL:  OK.
    33
    34   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  If I hear evidence that something did happen
    35        I will take that into account, but as you know, I decide
    36        the case on probabilities, not possibilities.  The fact
    37        that evidence of something may have happened is no evidence
    38        that it did.
    39
    40   MS. STEEL:  No.
    41
    42   MR. MORRIS:  So can I just say that the impression you got from
    43        that meeting that you made notes of was that the group was
    44        going to discuss at the meeting on the 25th January its
    45        involvement in the antiMcDonald's campaign?
    46        A.   From looking at the notes, the group was to discuss
    47        the future of the group as a whole and if it was the future
    48        of the group as a whole it would have included McDonald's
    49        campaign, but I cannot recall without--
    50 
    51   Q.   If the campaign featured in the group? 
    52        A.   The campaign did feature in the group. 
    53
    54   MS. STEEL:  Yes.  If you go to page 9 of the notes.  This is the
    55        same meeting -- or may be it is not, actually.  No, sorry.
    56        It is the meeting of 18th January, 1990.  You have got a
    57        note here about "There were two letters of relevance, one
    58        from a group in Tasmania, apparently a man has organised a
    59        group of antiMcDonald's and he sent money Greenpeace, lots
    60        of press cuttings of a picket they held last October

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