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The Sun resurrects topless models on Page 3 ending days of rumours

Thursday's edition of The Sun features a topless model on Page 3 ending rumours that the newspaper had decided to drop the long-running feature.

Campaigners had been celebrating a victory after topless photos did not appear in three consecutive editions of the daily newspaper.

The Sun newspaper refused to confirm or deny the reports.

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No More Page 3 celebrates 'important first step'

Members of the No More Page 3 campaign have celebrated an apparent decision by The Sun to cover up its models in recent days - having them pose in their underwear rather than topless.

While The Sun has yet to officially confirm or deny the reports, campaigners have called it a "great day for people power" - and said while there is more to be done, it was a "very important" first step.

We hoped to bring about a change by raising awareness of the sexism of Page 3; awareness of the way having women presented in this way [in] the news serves to reduce the importance of all women to their appearance and sexual allure; awareness of the fact that whilst sexy pictures may have a place, the accessibility of the Page 3 picture, in the front of the paper, makes access to sexualised women's bodies as much of a given as the TV listings or the crossword puzzle.

Through the shared voices of some fantastic women and men we have succeeded in keeping a discussion going about the way that this feature permeates and affects the society we all live in.

– No More Page 3

The statement added that while models appearing in their underwear was "still not equality", it indicated a shift in societal attitudes.

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