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Climb on board for an adventure around some of the most stunning scenery in Cornwall by bus.

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Climb on board for an adventure around some of the most stunning scenery in Cornwall. Our family adventures include;

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Soak up the sights from our open toppers as they wind their way around Falmouth, Land’s End, Sennen, St. Ives, Newquay and Padstow.

Each of the individual adventures has their own characteristics which represent the unique nature of the routes – their landscape, geography and the different customers that they attract. This enables adventurers to absorb the stunning scenery whilst our Cornwall DayTripper network simply connects a variety of attractions and pretty places across mid-Cornwall, with the [ Eden Project ] as it’s hub.

From 1st January 2023 as part of the UK Government initiative and Help for Households, there will be a maximum price of £2.00 for a single journey on the bus, and £4.00 for a return.

All of our Adventures by Bus routes are included within the scheme.

Both Adult & Child single fares will be capped at £2.00, and returns £4.00.

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Welcome to Cornwall by Kernow

From online tickets to timetables and route maps, we have a vast amount of resources to help you get around as easily as possible for essential travel. Enjoy the journey.

Welcome to Cornwall by Kernow. With nearly 100 bus routes travelling around this scenic county, you won’t be disappointed with the views wherever you get off the bus. Whether you’re heading for a day on one of the many beautiful beaches, or going for a stroll around a charming village, we’ll help you find more with easier local travel.

Cornwall is a stunning place, and here at Cornwall by Kernow we want you to see it all. That’s why we offer our Plus Bus tickets, giving you unlimited bus travel around town. You can even buy the Plus Bus ticket when you buy your train ticket, so you can arrange all your travel in one go. Don’t’ forget, the Plus Bus ticket is now available in 227 towns and cities across Britain, so you can see and do more for less.

To truly experience some of the best that Cornwall has to offer, take one of our Adventures By Bus tours . Our Atlantic Coaster, Land's End Coaster, Lizard and Falmouth Coaster all offer open-top services, the perfect way to take in the breath taking Cornish scenery, whilst our DayTripper is the perfect way to conveniently explore some of Cornwall's highlights. For more information about each of these routes, including timetables and prices, please visit our Adventures By Bus website.

Helping you get around Cornwall as easily as possible

From online tickets to timetables and route maps, we have a vast amount of resources to help you get around as easily as possible. Cornwall by Kernow operate 100 bus services running regularly throughout Cornwall, meaning there is always a bus ready to take you where you need to go. Above, you can find information regarding our bus routes in Cornwall including timetables, prices and even use our journey planner to ensure a smooth ride. Enjoy the journey.

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Service 17a: madron.

From the 9th of May to the 31st of May 2024 there will be a closure in Madron between the hours of 07:30 and 17:00.

This will affect the 17A.

Buses will be diverting as follows:

Buses will divert via Bocathnoe Way to Trengwainton Gardens. Here they will turn around and wait time. They will then proceed back through Bocathnoe way to the Sportsmans Arms pub and then resume their normal line of route.

Passengers are advised to make their way to Trengwainton Gardens.

We apologise for any inconvenient this may cause.

Service U4: Wendron Street, Helston

From the 30th of May to the 31st of May 2024, there will be a closure along Wendron Street, Helston between the hours of 19:00 and 05:00.

This will affect the U4 services operating towards Falmouth.

Buses will take their norrmal line of route to Helston Boating Lake. They will then turn right onto A394 Whitehill Terrace. At the roundabout outside the SPAR shop, they will turn left into Meneague Street, and continue along Meneague Street and turn left into Coinage Hall Street.

Please note that buses will serve the bus stop outside the Blue Anchor for both directions.

After the Blue Anchor, buses will proceed to the roundabout and turn left onto A394 Whitehill Terrace and right at the SPAR onto Meneague Street. They will then continue to the roundabout outside the Cottage Hospital and turn left onto A394 Clodgey Lane and left again continuing along Clodgey Lane to the next roundabout where they will turn left. After this they will continue along Clodgey Lane, turn right into TESCOs, and resume their normal line of route.

Please note that for the duration of this closure, we will be unable to serve stops in Godolphin Road.

Buses operating towards Penzance will be unaffected by the above diversion.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

East Street: Newquay Bus Station

From Sunday the 12th of May to Tuesday the 14th of May, there will be an overnight closure along East Street Newquay between the hours of 19:00 and 07:00.

This will affect service 91, T3, U1, U1E, and Atlantic Coaster.

Passengers are advised to make their way to St Georges Road where buses will be picking up as they will be unable to serve the bus station.

After picking up from St Georges Road, buses will travel down to Mount Wise where they will turn left, follow the road up Berry Road and resume their normal line of route.

Service 24: Charlestown Road St Austell

There will be a closure along Charlestown Road St Austell from Saturday 18th of May to Sunday 19th May 2024 for tree felling.

This will affect service 24.

Towards Fowey :

Buses will take their normal line of route to ASDA then turn right onto the A390 as usual. They will then continue to the next set of traffic lights where they will turn right into Porthpean Road. At the roundabout, they will follow the road ahead and take the first road on the left onto Duporth Road.

Following the road to the T junction at the end, they will turn left into Charlestown Road and then right into Church Road where they will resume their normal line of route.          

Towards St Austell :

Buses will take their normal line of route to Charlestown Church and then follow the road to the T junction at the end. They will then turn left into Charlestown Road, right into Duporth Road, and follow Duporth Road to the T junction at the end. Here they will turn right into Porthpean Road. At the roundabout, they will take the second exit and to continue along Porthpean Road.

At the traffic lights, they will turn left onto A390 Cromwell Road where they will resume their normal line of route.

Service T1, T2 & U2: Redruth Pride

Due to the Redruth Pride event on Sunday 12th May 2024, services T1, T2 and U2 will be unable to access Station Hill, Redruth Station, Station Road, and East End between 12:00 and 13:00.

U2 12:00 from Falmouth Moor

Buses will take their normal line of route until they reach Clinton Road.

After serving the stop outside the old Redruth Library, they will turn left into Treruffe Hill. At the end of the road, buses will turn right at the T junction into Falmouth Road, pass under the viaduct to the traffic lights and continue ahead into Penryn Street where they will resume normal line of route.

U2 12:02 from Barncoose Hospital

Buses will take their normal line of route until they reach the Penryn Street.

At the traffic lights they will continue ahead and pass under the viaduct and take the first road on the left (Treruffe Hill). At the end of the road, buses will turn right at the T junction into Clinton Road and resume their normal line of route.

T1 and T2 services towards Camborne

Buses will follow their normal line of route until they reach St Day Road on the outskirts of Redruth. After serving the stop at Trefusis Terrace, buses will turn left into Sea View Terrace and right into Heanton Villas.

At the end of the road, they will carry on ahead at the crossroads into Treruffe Hill. They will then continue to the end of the road and turn right at the T junction into Falmouth Road, pass under the viaduct to the traffic lights and continue ahead into Penryn Street where they will resume the normal line of route.

T1 and T2 services towards Truro

Buses will follow their normal line of route until they reach the Penryn Street.

At the traffic lights they will continue ahead and pass under the viaduct and take the first road on the left. At the end of the road, they will take the road ahead at the crossroads into Heanton Villas and continue to the end of the road, turn left at the T junction into Sea View Terrace, and turn right at the T junction into Wesley Street.

They will then continue onto Wesley Street and into St Day Road to the double mini roundabouts where they will then turn left onto A393 Sandy Lane.

At the next roundabout, they will turn right onto Mount Ambrose where they will resume their normal line of route.

A comprehensive timetable covering Cornwall’s bus services was published in mid March 2024 to take effect from Sunday 31 March 2024. The complete timetable can be downloaded here: Cornwall Bus Timetable 31 March 2024 . Note that the composite timetable does not include the services run by First specifically for Truro and Penwith College, nor the GoCornwall services to Callywith College, although the general public can catch these services if they wish. First and Go Cornwall Bus have, in previous years, published specific timetable books for these services, but seem to have ceased doing so this year. I have extracted from the composite guide the timetables for individual services that passengers may find more convenient to download than wading through the whole book that has over 100 pages. I have also included links to the individual timetables for the 2023/24 routes to Truro and Penwith Colleges and to Callywith College. See listing below. For residents of the Rame peninsula who catch the Cremyll Ferry to Plymouth, I have included the ferry timetable and the timetable for Plymouth Citybus 34 that serves Stonehouse where the Cremyll Ferry lands and the Devonport drop off point from the Torpoint ferry. There is also a useful mini-timetable booklet produced by Go Cornwall Bus called Tamar Connections that includes those GCB services that cross the Tamar between Plymouth and South East Cornwall (nos. 10, 11, 12, 70, 71, 75), plus Plymouth Citybus no. 34. Some of the changes from the previous timetables include: The service between St Ives and Truro currently numbered T2 runs as a half-hourly service daytime Monday to Saturday. This frequency will continue but alternate half-hours will be numbered T2 and T3. The T2 will run through Truro to St Austell, replacing the current 27 service; what will in future be branded as the T3 will run through Truro to Newquay, replacing the current 91 service. The evening and Sunday and bank holiday services on the 27 route will continue to be provided by Go Cornwall Bus under the number 27E. I have compiled a combined T2/27E timetable to cover all the services on the Truro-St Austell corridor. In the west, the winter no. 7 service will be withdrawn as the circular Lands End Coaster route will restart covering this route. The 18/Tin Coaster and 19 Madron services will be incorporated into a revised 17/17A/17E timetable. The 24 service operated by First between Fowey and Mevagissey will be split at St Austell with Fowey to St Austell covered by a revised 24 timetable, and St Austell to Mevagissey by a new 29 timetable; the 24 services operated by GCB will continue to operate over the whole route Fowey to Mevagissey with a revised timetable.

South East Cornwall and Plymouth

2, 2A Saltash, Plymouth 10 Plymouth, Looe, Polperro 11 Plymouth, Bodmin, Wadebridge, Padstow 12, 12A Plymouth, Launceston, Bude 70, 70A, 70B Plymouth, Torpoint, Cremyll 71 Derriford, Saltash 73, 73A Liskeard, Looe, Polperro 74 Callington, Liskeard 75 Torpoint, Liskeard 77 Liskeard, Dobwalls, Polperro 78, 78A Liskeard, Launceston 79, 79A Callington, Tavistock 481, 482 Polruan, Looe, Bodmin 450, 451, 452, 454 Saltash, Liskeard area Cremyll Ferry summer timetable Plymouth Citybus 34 timetable Tamar Connections

Mid Cornwall

T1 Penzance, Camborne, Truro T2 St Ives, Camborne, Truro, St Austell T3 St Ives, Camborne, Truro, Newquay U1, U1A, U1E (Coast to Coast) Falmouth, Truro, Newquay U2 (Copper) Falmouth, Redruth U3 Penryn campus, Falmouth U4 Falmouth, Penzance 21 Newquay, St Austell 22 Truro, Clay country, St Austell 23, 24, 24E, 24X, 29 Fowey, St Austell, Mevagissey, Gorran 25 Fowey, St Austell, Newquay 26 St Austell, Bodmin T2, 27E St Ives, Camborne, Truro, St Austell 28, 31, 428 St Austell, Eden Project, Lostwithiel, Luxulyan 30 St Austell town service 34 Redruth, The Lizard 35, 35A, 63 Falmouth, Helston, Helford Passage 36, 36A, 36S Truro, Penryn, St Keverne, Redruth 40, 40A Truro, Redruth 42 Falmouth, Camborne 46 Camborne, Illogan 48, 49 Troon, Camborne, Barncoose, Truro 50 Truro, Tregony, St Mawes 51 St Austell, Tregony, Veryan 56 Newquay, Padstow 58, 59 Newquay town service, RAF St Mawgan 60, 63, 64, 65 Falmouth town service, Helford Passage 66, 466 Penryn, Truro 67 Falmouth coaster 69, 69A Falmouth, Mylor Bridge, Tremough 84, 484, 485, 494, 495, 496 Truro town services 85 Newquay, Truro 88 Redruth, Newquay 90 Wadebridge, Truro 91 Truro, Newquay (Sunday) T3 St Ives, Camborne, Truro, Newquay 92, 92S Wadebridge, Newquay 93, 94 Truro, Newquay 96, 96A Wadebridge, Bodmin 304 Porthtowan, Truro 315 Redruth, St Agnes 405 Pedna Carne, Bodmin 423 Summercourt, Gorran Haven 481, 482 Polruan, Looe, Bodmin 493 Truro, Feock 497 Summercourt, Truro 499 Summercourt, Tregony G1, G3, G4 Gorran Bus

West Cornwall

T1 Penzance, Camborne, Truro T2 St Ives, Camborne, Truro, St Austell T3 St Ives, Camborne, Truro, Newquay T2A St Ives, Gwithian U4 Falmouth, Penzance 5, 5A Penzance, Paul The Mousehole + Cat 8 Long Rock, St Just 15 Hayle, Penzance 16, 16A Rosehill Gardens, Penzance, St Ives 17, 17A, 17E Penzance, Madron, St Ives 33 St Keverne, Helston 34 Redruth, The Lizard 35, 35A, 63 Falmouth, Helston, Helford Passage 36, 36A, 36S Truro, Penryn, St Keverne, Redruth 37, 37A Helston town service 38 Camborne, Helston 39, 39A Camborne, Helston, Penzance 42 Falmouth, Camborne 46 Camborne, Illogan 48, 49 Troon, Camborne, Barncoose, Truro Lands End Coaster

North Cornwall

6 Bude, Okehampton 11 Plymouth, Bodmin, Wadebridge, Padstow 12, 12A Plymouth, Launceston, Bude 56 Newquay, Padstow 78, 78A Liskeard, Launceston 85 Barnstaple, Launceston, Tavistock 90 Wadebridge, Truro 92, 92S Wadebridge, Newquay 95 Bude, Wadebridge 96, 96A Wadebridge, Bodmin 97, 97S Launceston, Camelford 114, 115, 117, 119 Tavistock country buses 128, 218, 219 Bude, Marhamchurch, Poughill, Hartland 306 Launceston, Okehampton 217 Holsworthy, Gooseham 220 Crackington Haven, Launceston 223 Launceston town service 319 Hartland, Barnstaple 371, 372, 373 Warbstow Cross, Bude, Holsw’y, Launc’n 425, 426 Launceston, Altarnun, Terrace Atlantic Coaster, Newquay, Padstow

Truro College

100, 200, 300 Penzance Hayle St Ives Truro College 220 St Dennis Truro College 271 Callington Truro College 272 Looe Truro College 273 Fowey Truro College 274 Mevagissey Truro College 400 Portreath Truro College 470 Redruth Truro College 500 St Mawes Truro College 660 Constantine Truro College 850 Newquay Truro College 890 Launceston Truro College 900 Wadebridge Truro College 950 Boscastle Truro College L1 Lizard Truro College L2 Coverack Truro College

Penwith College

160 St Ives Penwith College 390 Camborne Penwith College

Callywith College

172 Torpoint Callywith College 174 Callington Callywith College 176 Launceston Callywith College 177 Holsworthy Callywith College 178 Launceston Callywith College 179 Tavistock Callywith College 180 Kilkhampton Callywith College 181 Crackington Haven Callywith College 182 Delabole Callywith College 185 Newquay Callywith College 187 Fowey Callywith College 188 St Austell Callywith College 189 Biscovey Callywith College 190 Mevagissey Callywith College

There are a few timetables that look a little odd, in particular the services operated by Travel Cornwall numbers 423, 497 and 499. These operate between Summercourt and Gorran Haven, Truro and Tregony respectively. They are used by the operator to position buses either to or from those locations prior to, or after completing schedules in those areas, or school transport in those areas. For example, the first 51 of the day to Veryan departs from Tregony at 06:45. In order to position that bus in Tregony, a bus runs as the 499 from Summercourt to Tregony. The last 51 service  of the day finishes at Veryan at 18:42. It then becomes the 499, leaving Veryan at 18:43 to return to the depot at Summercourt via Tregony at 19:02 then runs along the Probus bypass to Tresillian then via Ladock and Brighton Cross.

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• 484 Truro - Kenwyn - Truro - Malpas Road Estate
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• 493 Truro - Calenick - Feock - Truro
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This gorgeous island trumps Cornwall — and is a one-hour flight away

Jersey’s empty coves, surfing and incredible seafood helped our writer and her teenagers break out of a ten-year family holiday rut.

G etting stuck in a rut is often spoken of in terms of a job, a relationship, a fashion style even, but rarely a holiday. For a decade, we have loaded up the car for a week in Cornwall, chosen at first all those years ago for its beaches and coves, its bucket-and-spade appeal for little ones, and in time, bodyboarding and surfing. Finally its appeal shifted (not for us) to the teenage hell that is Polzeath at night, so unruly and trashed with rubbish that the beach is now floodlit for the patrolling police. There came the inevitable moment when my husband and I looked at one another in an expensive rental, unpacking yet more shopping for yet more meals for teenagers, and said: “How is this a holiday?” It was this frustration that prompted us to book a hotel in Jersey, instead, for our next family holiday. We climbed out of our rut.

We had ostensibly been invited to a family event by Jersey friends, but it prompted a to-hell-with-Cornwall-this-year attitude and we extended our stay. Only 14 miles from mainland France and, at 85 miles from mainland Britain, the most southerly of the British Isles, Jersey looked as if it had some gorgeous beaches of its own. St Ouen’s Bay is renowned for its surfing and its dune system, Les Blanches Banques, which has been designated a site of special interest. I was also done with renting a house with all the attendant cooking and skivvying. When was the last time we’d stayed in a hotel? Certainly before Covid. Jersey was near enough to warrant only a three-night stay but far enough away, in geography and, as it turns out, culture, with its French influence, to feel as if we were holidaying abroad.

Travelling to Cornwall often involves heavy traffic — especially on the A303, a beast of a road in summer. Jersey is less than an hour away on a plane and also accessible by ferry from Portsmouth and Poole for anybody against flying or who wants the flexibility of taking a car. We flew from Gatwick, picking up a taxi at Jersey airport to the family-owned Atlantic Hotel in the parish of St Brelade on the headland of the west coast, with breathtaking views over the Atlantic, a golf course and the vast beach of St Ouen’s Bay — a wide, free landscape achieved after the storm of October 1987 battered the trees.

The hotel had been a tip-off: somewhere that looked as if it might be in the Med, with sea-view balconies and palm trees, all lit glamorously at night, but without the hassle of cross-border travel. We arrived on an early flight to find bright sunshine, a glistening pool and waiters in crisp uniforms bringing ice-cold drinks to snoozing guests on loungers. There was a restaurant with a Michelin star, its tables being laid for lunch with white table linen, a hands-down win over the trundle of an Ocado van. The rooms are as spoiling as any you might find in Nice.

Jersey’s proximity to Brittany and Normandy gives the island a distinctly French feel, historical in its origin. When the Normans conquered England in the 11th century, Jersey remained part of the Duchy of Normandy, but when that split from the English crown in the 13th century, England retained the island. There are ancient ruins and Ice Age mammoths in the volcanic bedrock, and three ancient castles. The capital is St Helier, with its boutiques and many restaurants, but it is the beaches that are the main draw: the long sweeps of the west and south coasts versus the smaller bays of the east and north.

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A stay at the Atlantic does not require a car if you keep to the region of St Ouen’s, a surfers’ paradise with the best waves on the island. You can walk down from the hotel, which we did while the teens booked into Jersey Surf School, the island’s longest running (90-minute personal lessons from £100; jerseysurfschool.co.uk). After their lessons, we reconvened at the family-run Le Braye for fish and chips, moules frites and Jersey crab sandwiches. It’s one of a few eateries along the four-mile bay road (mains from £15; lebraye.com); others include El Tico Beach Cantina, Jersey’s original beach café — a restaurant, surf shop and surf school rolled into one, bang in the middle of the bay with a terrace looking on to the sea and great for breakfast (mains from £16; elticojersey.com) — and Staks, at La Pulente at the southern end, which has a balcony from which to watch the sunset with an Aperol or a milkshake in hand (both £4; staks.je).

Bicycles can be hired too, or cabs booked, for destinations beyond a walk. L’Étacq, on the northern tip of St Ouen’s, is a dreamy hidden cove with the bluest of water accessed by steep steps (not for the faint-hearted), and nearby Plémont is lovely for a deserted swim too. We tried our best to choose locations that avoided the need for a car, although the Jersey War Tunnels, more than 1km of tunnels dug by slave labour, in the St Lawrence district are worth a visit for insight into the dark days of German occupation during the Second World War (entry £19 adults, £11 children; jerseywartunnels.com).

By contrast, the Portelet Bay Café cannot be accessed by a car; unless you’re lucky enough to have a boat, it’s down steep steps from the 12A bus stop between Portelet Common and Noirmont, but it’s worth the hike for authentic pizza and fresh shellfish as well as breakfast (pizzas from £10; porteletbaycafe.com).

The point of breaking a holiday rut is to rethink old habits: the forgotten pleasure of hotel living with meals provided; full breakfasts as thrilling as evening fine dining; the swapping of road for sea, of car for bike or boat. In this spirit, the pinnacle of our stay had to be the skippered Rib trip with Le Mourier Marine to Les Écréhous, a group of islands and rocks six miles to the northeast and a designated wetland area of international importance (from £38pp; marine.lemourier.co.uk).

We picked up the boat from Albert Pier in Saint Helier Marina, buckled in and raced through the waves. Les Écréhous is home to one of the largest tidal ranges in the world, and all but the three largest islands were submerged when we arrive. Our Rib cruised around the reef as we looked for Atlantic grey seals and bottlenose dolphins before landing on Maîtr’Île, bumping up on a shingle bank. The island is inhabited sporadically by just a few eccentric holidaymakers who own homes there (owning the most basic of fisherman’s huts is still a status symbol). We arrived at high tide, which gave the island a weird, desolate feel, as if it was being discovered for the first time. At low tide, it changes to become moon-like, with drifts of exposed golden sandbanks.

In 2021 four areas of Les Écréhous were brought under Jersey’s wildlife law, to protect the breeding activities and nesting of wild birds, including European shags, great cormorants and oystercatchers. We scrambled up on rocks buffeted by salt winds, our path often halted by “forbidden entry” signs, with the birds nesting ­beyond the chain barriers. Calls filled the air, lest we should forget that it was they who are the kings and queens of this isle.

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Les Écréhous was like nothing any of us had ever experienced before: a rocky, shingly anomaly that seemed to have been dropped into the sea, far removed from pollution and the modern day; a haven where nature was respected and prized, rather than threatened. It was in these savoured moments of peace and quiet, on such an odd and unexpected archipelago, that the simplicity of the natural world triumphed. It completed our reset. Who knows what we will do this summer.

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Louise Carpenter was a guest of Visit Jersey (jersey.com). B&B doubles from £240 (theatlantichotel.com). Fly or take the ferry to Jersey

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My questions are: can I leave my luggage at the train station or somewhere nearby?

How do I get to the Lost Gardens of Heligan from the train station (and back)?

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Buses 23 and 29 run between St Austell Station and the gardens.

https://bustimes.org/services/23-st-austell-mevagissey-heligan-gdns-gorran-haven

https://bustimes.org/services/29-st-austell-lost-gardens-of-heligan-mevagissey

There's also a taxi rank outside the station.

There’s no left luggage facility or lockers at St Austell station and I’m not aware of anything like Stasher operating nearby.

I think Heligan used offer limited storage for cyclists’ “stuff” so it might be worth emailing them.

You'll just have to hope Heligan will store your luggage for you.

https://www.edenproject.com/visit/faqs

I went to Helligan last year and there was no sign of any luggage storage then.

Thanks everyone for this info! I might have to reconsider my plan.

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