Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
attribute of an empty cell object.  Now a ValueError is raised.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index c2ea956..15fa9be 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
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@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@
 Core and builtins
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+- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents`` 
+  attribute of an empty cell object.
+
 - Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated input.
   It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.