:::(ec) Ultimately, I would be really unhappy to slice up the section. I do acknowledge your point, and I will see in a few hours what others think. I am popping off to sleep now - if the consensus is to slice it up, then ok, but I find these days WP slows up at certain times of day and all articles, almost regardless of size are slow. Furthermore, a lead summarises salient points of a long article, so someone can really stop there if need be. We have been given a 60kb prose/10k word limit. I would rather trim bits and pieces off than hack off a section. Cheers,   ·