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SPIRE, the Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver, will be a bolometer instrument for ESA's Herschel satellite. Its main scientific goals are deep extra-galactic and galactic imaging surveys and spectroscopy of star-forming regions in own and nearby galaxies. In the proceedings of the 'The promise of FIRST', symposium held 12-15 December 2000 in Toledo, Spain.