diff --git a/modules/EnsEMBL/README b/modules/EnsEMBL/README
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+
+This is a sub directory off EnsEMBL so that we can
+have Perl modules going
+
+EnsEMBL::
+
+etc.
diff --git a/modules/t/README b/modules/t/README
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+
+This is the EnsEMBL::* testing directory for a Perl test
+system