diff --git a/modules/Bio/EnsEMBL/Hive/Process.pm b/modules/Bio/EnsEMBL/Hive/Process.pm
index 06f7841038c1ec6fff6db1948818d401b3661f6b..27018b8ca930f70d1008654454942025e01c4167 100644
--- a/modules/Bio/EnsEMBL/Hive/Process.pm
+++ b/modules/Bio/EnsEMBL/Hive/Process.pm
@@ -104,9 +104,6 @@ use Bio::EnsEMBL::Hive::Utils ('stringify', 'go_figure_dbc');
 use Bio::EnsEMBL::Hive::Utils::Stopwatch;
 
 
-use base ('Bio::EnsEMBL::Utils::Exception');   # provide these methods for deriving classes
-
-
 sub new {
     my $class = shift @_;
 
@@ -378,7 +375,7 @@ sub dbc {
     Title   :   data_dbc
     Usage   :   my $data_dbc = $self->data_dbc;
     Function:   returns a Bio::EnsEMBL::Hive::DBSQL::DBConnection object (the "current" one by default, but can be set up otherwise)
-    Returns :   Bio::EnsEMBL::DBSQL::DBConnection
+    Returns :   Bio::EnsEMBL::Hive::DBSQL::DBConnection
 
 =cut
 
diff --git a/modules/Bio/EnsEMBL/Hive/URLFactory.pm b/modules/Bio/EnsEMBL/Hive/URLFactory.pm
index 02146d96c7269ef66f0335f54c7160679de96df0..0e26b814f73d2268f9be4e109ef61fbf60d4d52c 100644
--- a/modules/Bio/EnsEMBL/Hive/URLFactory.pm
+++ b/modules/Bio/EnsEMBL/Hive/URLFactory.pm
@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@ my $_URLFactory_global_instance;
 package Bio::EnsEMBL::Hive::URLFactory;
 
 use strict;
-use Bio::EnsEMBL::Utils::Exception;
 
 use Bio::EnsEMBL::Hive::Utils::URL;
 use Bio::EnsEMBL::Hive::DBSQL::DBAdaptor;