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I recently watched the film “The Imitation Game” which is quite an old film about the work carried out at Bletchley Park to crack the enigma machine which was used during World War Two to send encrypted messages. Although like most films based on true events the story is exaggerated, but the key to the story is Alan Turing and, as many of you may be aware, he was a gay man. The sad truth was he suffered because of his sexuality and committed suicide in 1954. A picture of him now adorns the new fifty pound note which is at least a tribute to his work and a sign that our society has changed for the better over the past sixty years since his death.