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The Lord Chancellor's Advisory Council, which reviews historic file transfers to Britain's archives, has approved a one-year legal retention, which will allow the FCO to hold the 170,000 files while it plans for their release.
Women with ovarian cancer were assigned to the deprivation category of their LSOA of residence, using their postcode and a combined historic file of over 2 million unique postcodes, linked to geographic area codes for each calendar year.
Cancer patients were assigned to the deprivation category of their LSOA (from 1 'most affluent' to 5 'most deprived'), using the postcode of residence at diagnosis and a combined historic file, covering the whole study period, of 2.1 million unique full postcodes, each linked to a complete set of contemporary geographic area codes.
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And the latest release of MI5 historic files to the National Archives in Kew, south-west London, fills in some detail of how it was done.
This month the Guardian disclosed that the Ministry of Defence was unlawfully holding more than 66,000 historic files at a warehouse in Derbyshire, including thousands of files from the army's Northern Ireland headquarters.
Like Barbarians sacking Rome, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is willfully destroying much of its historic files, which date back to 1790 and are a fabulous "paper trail" of the extraordinary inventiveness and innovation of Americans.
Overall we only redact around 1percentt of content across all historic files that we review.
Late last year, the Guardian revealed that the FCO was holding hundreds of thousands of historic files at Hanslope Park.
A spokesperson for the Foreign Office told VICE that "overall we only redact around 1percentt of content across all historic files that we review".
The UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) has uncovered a staggering 170,000 historic files that are overdue for review and release to the British public, VICE News has learned.
In October, the Guardian revealed that the FCO had unlawfully retained an estimated 1.2 million historic files – 15 miles of floor-to-ceiling shelving – at Hanslope Park.
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