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“Eventually it boils down to numbers,” he added.
Zian Flemming had just poked the Clarets into a 78th-minute 4-3 lead, having trailed Brentford 3-0 in the first half, and looked set to become just the sixth Premier League team to have recovered from 3-0 down to win.
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Jack Whitehall sat down to interview them an hour into the show and the wheels not only fell off, they rolled out the door, careened down a hill, crashed into a taxi, burst into flames and destroyed a Waitrose.
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Most accidents that occur during climbing are down to "poor planning", says Matt Cooper, a mountain rescue team member in Wales and founder of the Mountaineering Company.
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He says it's down to funding - to get a product from animal studies to human trials and to a fully licensed medicine takes years and billions of dollars.
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