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Officials from the Wellcome Trust and South Cambridgeshire district council met last Tuesday to discuss the Hinxton Hall genome campus planning dispute. The meeting was a final bid to save the Pounds 100 million extension scheme after deputy prime minister John Prescott blocked construction of a business park to exploit sequencing work at the Sanger Centre.

The charity will not appeal against the decision, which allows for a big part of the extension to go ahead. There is a possibility the whole operation could be sited elsewhere.