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@@ -27,9 +27,9 @@ This document explains the changes made to Iris for this release
 📢 Announcements
 ================
 
-#. Welcome to `@wjbenfold`_, `@tinyendian`_, `@larsbarring`_, `@akuhnregnier`_,
-   `@bsherratt`_ and `@aaronspring`_ who made their first contributions to Iris.
-   The first of many we hope!
+#. Welcome to `@wjbenfold`_, `@tinyendian`_, `@larsbarring`_, `@bsherratt`_ and
+   `@aaronspring`_ who made their first contributions to Iris. The first of
+   many we hope!
 #. Congratulations to `@wjbenfold`_ who has become a core developer for Iris! 🎉
 
 
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ This document explains the changes made to Iris for this release
    (:issue:`4342`, :pull:`4345`)
 
 #. `@larsbarring`_ fixed :class:`~iris.coord_systems.GeoCS` to handle spherical ellipsoid
-   parameter inverse_flattening = 0 (:issue: `4146`, :pull:`4348`)
+   parameter inverse_flattening = 0 (:issue:`4146`, :pull:`4348`)
 
 #. `@pdearnshaw`_ fixed an error in the call to :class:`cftime.datetime` in
    :mod:`~iris.fileformats.pp_save_rules` that prevented the saving to PP of climate