The company's chief executive in Wales, Alan Jarman, said the "very regrettable" decision was taken in a "rapidly changing economic environment".

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"I hope that people understand my friends' presence in the area for what it was: a simple and very regrettable mistake, " Meckfessel wrote.

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"It is very regrettable that the law quietly changed before the trial, " Georges Fenech, the head of the Inter-ministerial Unit to Monitor and Fight Cults, told French TV.

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"It is very regrettable, " a spokesman said.

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"This was a deeply regrettable error and we are very sorry, " it said.

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This was a deeply regrettable error and we are very sorry.

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And yet, people keep getting those very kinds of tattoos. (This photo gallery of regrettable celebrity tattoos on Yahoo is good for a laugh, or a cringe.) I know a woman with Lily Munster covering most of her upper arm.

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