Eugh, I've given up on this! I'm simply just doing it with a map {} now for each of the variables, and then doing:

    map { 
        $add->{$_} = utf8($add->{$_})->latin1;
    } keys %$add;
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...which works fine. Just wish I could work out why it doesn't seem to be reading/adding it properly without! Unfortunatly I don't have hours and hours I can spend on this trying to work it out :(

Thanks as always for your help though - much appreciated

Cheers

Andy