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+# 🚨 --- NO LONGER MAINTAINED ---- Psammead ---- NO LONGER MAINTAINED --- 🚨
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+We have recently migrated most of our Psammead components (except for BBC Web Vitals) to a legacy package in our Single Page Application called Simorgh (www.github.com/bbc/simorgh).
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+Any open source contributions to these components should now be made via the Simorgh repo.
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 # Psammead Packages Directory...
 
 NB all Development Dependencies are in the top level package.json, none are in the packages.