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 Victoria Cross - NZ VC etc. thefts 

Hi Woody. While I agree that what was there needed improvement, I'm not altogether sure that what you have put there solves all the problems.
It said: ""Lord Ashcroft contributed significantly to this amount"". You replaced that with: ""significantly paid for by Lord Ashcroft"".
I'm not very sure what ""significantly paid for"" actually means.
The original implies that Ashcroft didn't pay ALL of the reward. If one removes ""significantly"" from your change, one is left with ""paid for by Lord Ashcroft"". That's not the same. I'm not sure what your addition of ""significantly"" was meant to mean. Further, I'm not sure what the addition of ""significantly"" actually does mean.
What was wrong with ""Lord Ashcroft contributed significantly to this amount"" that lead you to change it?
It said: ""New Zealand Police announced all the medals had been recovered as a result of the reward"". You removed ""as a result of the reward"". Why?
It said: ""A high profile Auckland lawyer, Chris Comeskey, played a key part in the drawn out negotiations to safely return the medals."" You removed that sentence. Why?
Several versions ago you reverted it to say: ""While there has been much public debate about the need to offer reward money in order to retrieve the medals, there is universal relief that they have been safely returned"". Yes, the tenses needed changing, but now it just says: ""There was much public debate about the need to offer reward money in order to retrieve the medals."" This reader feels that it now seems ""unfinished"" ...
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