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I've done all the changes you've suggested in Posting 1 except:

(a)
<, and, having> , and having

The existing commas were correct, but your suggested version wasn't. I removed the comma before "and" to avoid clutter.

(b)
reinstate

The style guide says:
"Words starting 're' should not be hyphenated unless the first letter after 're' is a vowel, so it's 're-use' and 're-educate' but 'remastered' and 'rekindled'."

(c) I haven't changed the full stops to colons in the times.

"<, and, having> , and having"

The comma before the 'and' was unnecessary, and mine was a typo - of course the current version is right.

" reinstate"

'The style guide says: "Words starting 're' should not be hyphenated unless the first letter after 're' is a vowel, so it's 're-use' and 're-educate' but 'remastered' and 'rekindled'."'

The style guide also tells authors that perfectly good words, like 'whilst' and 'spelt', may not be used!

Hyphens are needed principally: a) to avoid confusion ['re-sign' (to sign again) not to be confused with 'resign', 'co-op' (shop) to distinguish it from 'coop' (cage), etc]; b) to avoid the tripling of a letter, and c) to aid pronunciation.

'Reuse' and 'reinstate' are both correctly spelt. Once we part from the BBC, the style guide will have to be put up for revision. Authors and Sub-editors will just have to rely a little less on spellcheckers, and make use of a decent dictionary - I recommend the (free) online version of Oxford be the official Dictionary.

The Oxford has its own peculiarities - its distinction between -ise words and -ize words, for example, when common British usage has -ise for just about everything.

Sub-editors will just have to rely a little less on spellcheckers -- I don't use a spellchecker.

"The Oxford has its own peculiarities - its distinction between -ise words and -ize words, for example, when common British usage has -ise for just about everything."

A peculiarity common to most British English dictionaries. However, whilst one can successfully search, in Oxford, for a particular word spelt either way (-ize or -ise), some of the other British English dictionaries do not find, for example, a word normally spelt with the -ize ending when searching for the -ise ending - even though they show both alternatives when searching for the -ize ending.

Be that as it may, my point is that nominating a dictionary as the authoritative one (be it Oxford, Chambers, or Collins, etc) will simplify matters and avoid disputes.

I think I could go along with using the Oxford for everything except the -ise, -ize endings.