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Read the text and fill in the gaps with appropriate articles where necessary. POLICE STING NETS STOLEN CONSTABLES Two stolen John Constable paintings, worth an estimated 11 million, have been recovered and three men arrested during (1)... secret police operation. The stingquot; was carried out yesterday at (2)... hotel near Heathrow airport by officers from the National Crime Squad posing as dishonest art buyers. (3)... suspected art thieves are understood to have asked just 100,000 for (4)... sketches, which were stolen from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in November 1998. (5)... works are Dedham Lock and Mill and Sketch for Valley Farm which were painted near (6)... birthplace of (7)... great painter on the Suffolk-Essex borders. A secret operation was set up (8)... few days ago following (9)... tip off that criminals were trying to sell (10)... paintings on the black market. NCS officers мейд (11)... deal with three men, aged 34, 36 and 37, and arranged a handover at the Crown Plaza Hotel, in (12)... West Drayton. Detective Chief Inspector, Mick Deats, said: Not only have we managed to recover (13)... two important and very valuable paintings, we have arrested three people.quot; Dr Alan Borg, director of (14)... museum, said: We are absolutely delighted. These are two very important pieces of (15) ... our artistic heritage. quot;