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Harding, Stephanie Kirchgaessner and Nick HopkinsThursday 13 April 2017 09.39EDTLast modified on Thursday 13 April 2017 12.28EDTBritains spy agencies played a crucial role in alerting their counterparts in Washington to contacts between members of Donald Trumps campaign team and Russian intelligence operatives, the Guardian has been told.GCHQ first became aware in late 2015 of suspicious interactions between figures connected to Trump and known or suspected Russian agents, a source close to UK intelligence said. This intelligence was passed to the US as part of a routine exchange of information, they added.Over the next six months, until summer 2016, a number...