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Turned up a bit of information (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

data

'information' is the definition.
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'turned up a bit' is the wordplay.
'turned up' shows that the letters should be reversed in order.
'bit' becomes 'tad' (I've seen this before**).
'a'+'tad'='atad'
'atad' back-to-front is 'DATA'.

'of' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for data that I've seen before include "Contents of some banks?" , "Series of measurements" , "Collected information" , "Facts and figures as fed to computers (4)" , "Numerical information" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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