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Friday 27 August 1993 00:02 BST

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Children born prematurely are likely to be poor performers at school, a report in the medical journal, the Lancet, says. A survey in the Netherlands found 32 per cent of children born at 32 weeks were below the educational level for their age, compared with 10 per cent of all nine-year-olds.

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