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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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Dr Babar says the peptide therapies his clinic offers are overseen by a GMC-registered doctor but, because these products are not licensed and there is "no textbook" on how to use them, it comes down to experience and clinicians like himself learning "from each other".

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