They are angry that several key sites have been left out of the first tranche on the grounds that insufficient evidence was supplied to justify them.

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"I felt I needed a score to justify the faith that was put in me, more than anything, " the left-hander said.

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The freedom-of-information bill, promised by the government but left out of its schedule for the coming session of Parliament, would have made it far harder to justify denying independent scientists access to official data.

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