Redirect old URLs before rewriting them

[swgdesign Profile]

I have the following code in my .htaccess file and I want to know where I should put permenant redirects and also how they should be written?

I want to redirect http://www.domain.com/en/collection.asp to http://www.domain.com/collection.asp
AND http://www.domain.com/en/available-offspring.asp to http://www.domain.com/for-sale.asp

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RewriteEngine ON

#RewriteCond %{HTTPS} (on)?
#RewriteCond %{HTTP:Host} ^(?!www\.)(.+)$ [NC]
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.+)
#RewriteRule .? http(?%1s)://www.%2%3 [R=301,L]

RewriteBase /

#News

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !^POST
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^Headline=([^=&]+)&ID=([^=&]+)$
RewriteRule ^news\.asp$ news/%1/%2/? [NC,R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^news/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ news.asp?Headline=$1&ID=$2 [NC,L]

Many thanks
Simon

[HeliconAndrew]

Hello Simon,

It doesn't matter where to put these particular, try using:

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# redirect from /en/collection.asp --> /collection.asp
RewriteRule ^en/collection\.asp$ /collection.asp [NC,R=301,L]

#redirect from /en/available-offspring.asp --> /for-sale.asp
RewriteRule ^en/available-offspring\.asp$ /for-sale.asp [NC,R=301,L]

Regards
Andrew