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Thanks for all the responses! At the moment I am serving the 410's using the .htaaccess file as I removed the actual pages a while ago. The pages don't show in most searches, however, two of them do show up in some instances under the sitelinks which is the main pain. I manually asked for them to be removed using 'remove urls' however that only last a couple of months and they are now back. So I guess the best way is to recreate the pages and insert a noindex? Thanks again for everyone time, it's much appreciated.