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<title>Taylor Wimpey hit by massive loss</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Why is more than half our food now wrapped in plastic?]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The story behind the sight-saving drug controversy]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Prospectors scour the UK countryside for black gold]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Actor Darren Day tells a court he was missing his family when caught drink-driving after a stage performance.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The UK's electoral system is stuck in the 19th Century and is under "severe strain", says a watchdog's report.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Sensitive legal documents relating to a major drugs prosecution in Liverpool are discovered on a tip in Lancashire.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The man who wrote 100 Things to Do Before You Die has died. Why did his book in 1999 spark a phenomenon?]]></description>
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<title>Maths leg work</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Did you know most people have an "above average" number of feet? More stat-busting...]]></description>
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<title>Obama &#x27;murder plot&#x27; in headlines</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Many of Wednesday's papers focus on the arrest of four suspects over an alleged plot to kill Barack Obama.]]></description>
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<title>Man convicted of converting guns</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A man is found guilty of conspiring to convert replica submachine guns into live weapons.]]></description>
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<title>Woman dies in Siberia hike fall</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A female tourist from London falls 45ft to her death while hiking in Siberia, the Foreign Office confirms.]]></description>
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<title>Jail term for 20,000 abuse images</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A Londonderry man is jailed for 18 months for downloading 20,000 indecent images of children from the internet.]]></description>
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<title>Gun attack linked to dissidents</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A gun attack on a police patrol in Craigavon on Tuesday night is being linked to dissident republicans.]]></description>
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<title>Study reveals teen self-harm rate</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A study suggests that up to 14% of 15 and 16-year-olds across central Scotland have self-harmed.]]></description>
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<title>Health board lost patients&#x27; data</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A health board tightens its security after the loss of "non-identifiable" patient data on two memory sticks.]]></description>
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<title>Fire in three ambulance engines</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The safety of Welsh ambulances is investigated after three separate engine fires in only two weeks.]]></description>
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<title>Disabled woman stuck at station</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A woman in a wheelchair was forced to wait an hour and a quarter to get out of a station because its lift was not working.]]></description>
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<title>Valuing new drugs: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[What lies behind a tiff over drug pricingONE of Labour&#8217;s early health-care reforms was to set up a body to work out how cost-effective new drugs are&#8212;and whether they are therefore worthwhile for the publicly financed NHS. Although the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has now been going for nine years, it is only recently that it has run into the sort of bitter controversy that always seemed likely to dog such a body. Stung by recent criticisms, Sir Michael Rawlins, NICE&#8217;s chairman, retaliated in an interview published in the Observer on August 17th. Why, he asked, did NICE always get the blame for saying no, when its supposedly stingy decisions were caused by the high prices set by drug companies? Why was no one questioning their fat profits, or their chief executives&#8217; big bonuses? ...]]></description>
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<title>Bagehot: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[The prime minister vanished; the leader of the opposition materialised in Tbilisi. Britain had a bad warHOLIDAYS in the BlackBerry era can be divided into two categories: &#8220;soft&#8221; (where the vacationer stays in radar contact and continues to exercise his thumbs) and &#8220;hard&#8221; (when he staves off divorce by switching everything off). David Cameron&#8217;s holiday was plainly in the soft category: one moment canoodling on a Cornish beach, the leader of the Conservative Party reappeared in Tbilisi, glad-handing Georgia&#8217;s embattled president. Meanwhile Gordon Brown, a prime minister famously, even worryingly, averse to relaxation, mostly sat out the Caucasian crisis in his holiday redoubt. Neither has distinguished himself. &#8220;I don&#8217;t like abroad,&#8221; King George V once remarked, &#8220;I&#8217;ve been there.&#8221; Mr Brown is often said to have a similar attitude to, and aptitude for, foreign relations. He gets worked up about globalisation and poverty; but he evinces little interest in the sort of tough diplomacy and realpolitik that Russia&#8217;s gangsterism calls for. He apparently talked about Georgia with George Bush, Ban Ki-moon and the rest by phone, but let others do the face-to-face peace-mongering. David Miliband, the foreign secretary, was also inconspicuous at first, though he eventually made it to Tbilisi on August 19th, denouncing Russia&#8217;s &#8220;adventurism and aggression&#8221;. ...]]></description>
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<title>Commercial property: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[The downturn in the capital&#8217;s office market will intensifyTWO years ago the City of London was planning a makeover as developers dreamt up new skyscrapers with quirky names to rival the &#8220;Gherkin&#8221;. But one by one the projects are being put on ice. The &#8220;Walkie-talkie&#8221; will spare the wavelengths for the time being. The &#8220;Cheese-grater&#8221; will leave the &#8220;Gherkin&#8221; unaccompanied for a while now that British Land, London&#8217;s biggest developer, has put the plan back a year.The jitters are overdue. Commercial-property prices are dropping fast. After rising by an average of 10% a year in 2004 and 2005 and then by 17% in 2006, prices may now have fallen by as much as 20% from their peak. The total return on property (rental income together with the change in property prices) touched a record low of minus 16% in the year to July according to IPD, a data provider. ...]]></description>
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<title>Boris Johnson: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[If the capital is a Tory test-bed, the early results are mixedON AUGUST 24th the world&#8217;s eyes will be on Boris Johnson, as he collects the Olympic flag at the closing ceremony in Beijing to mark the handover to the London games in 2012. But there are other reasons to be interested in London&#8217;s mayor, a flamboyant figure with an engaging manner who likes cycling to work. Mr Johnson&#8217;s new administration in London offers a preview&#8212;of sorts&#8212;of a future Conservative government.The early signs&#8212;Mr Johnson was elected in May, beating the Labour incumbent, Ken Livingstone&#8212;have been mixed. On August 19th Tim Parker, a businessman whom Mr Johnson had appointed first deputy mayor, resigned. The pair had agreed that the job of chairing Transport for London, which runs the capital&#8217;s buses and the Tube, should go to the mayor rather than Mr Parker, as originally intended. Shorn of that role, Mr Parker did not have much to stick around for, although he will continue advising the mayor.  ...]]></description>
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<title>Breaking up BAA: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Dismembering BAA should make it possible to develop a second hub airport for the capital and its regionAFTER years of being shamed by ever shabbier and more overcrowded airports, Britain is at last getting around to doing the right thing. On August 20th the Competition Commission, which investigates whether markets are working properly, released the damning findings of a 17-month study into the country&#8217;s airports. The report envisages the dismembering of BAA, the country&#8217;s dominant airports operator, as well as other proposals that amount to a wholesale rewrite of the government&#8217;s cherished aviation policy.The commission blamed long delays, overcrowding and a shortage of capacity that has long bedevilled Heathrow, the world&#8217;s busiest international airport, on a flawed regulatory regime, poor policy and, most important of all, BAA&#8217;s ownership of the three main London airports&#8212;Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted. It plans to force BAA to sell two of the three as well as another airport in Scotland.  ...]]></description>
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<title>The Olympics: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Why Britain&#8217;s athletes have done so wellEVERY four years in summer, the British prepare for their team to be gallant losers in the Olympics. But this August has brought winner upon winner. As The Economist went to press, the British team stood in third place in the medals table with 17 golds, behind only China and America, the most since 1908 when Britain hosted the games and fielded a third of the competitors, including all of them in some events. With some exceptions, such as Rebecca Adlington&#8217;s two golds in the pool, Britain&#8217;s medals were concentrated in three &#8220;sitting-down&#8221; sports: cycling, sailing and rowing. The achievements of the cyclists, winning eight golds, four silvers and two bronzes, were especially notable; Chris Hoy (shown in the picture) scored a golden hat-trick. Their success offers some clues to why Britain has staged such a comeback. ...]]></description>
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<title>Football hooligans: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Once a pariah, Britain now advises other countries on how to keep orderGLARING down from a PowerPoint slide was a young Englishman with swastikas daubed on his bare chest. Gazing up at him was a delegation of Brazilian police, congressmen and football officials. Unlikely as it might seem, given England&#8217;s reputation for football loutishness, Brazil sent a team of experts to London this week to learn how to handle o hooliganismo when they stage the World Cup in 2014.Other foreign governments have also sought British help. South Africa has asked for British advice on its own World Cup in 2010; so have Poland and Ukraine, the hosts of the European Championships in 2012. Europe&#8217;s football association, which threatened England with a ban in 2000, now recommends the British model of policing. ...]]></description>
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<title>School examinations: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[The government digs its heels inFOR education, August is the cruellest month. GCSE results follow hot on the heels of A-level ones, sparking annual debates over whether pupils&#8217; ever-more stellar performance reflects well on them and their schools, or badly on a government and exam system that encourage grade inflation. This year was no exception. The GCSE results, published on August 21st, of the first cohort educated entirely under Labour were record-breaking, as usual. A-levels likewise saw more passes, and more top grades. Breast-beating duly ensued. This year, though, a related issue has moved to the fore: whether over-testing in schools is leading to under-education. A review of primary education being co-ordinated by Cambridge University found that by the end of primary school children in England had taken more external tests than those in every other country the researchers had looked at. This is narrowing education and distorting the curriculum by encouraging teaching to the test, concluded a committee of MPs. And the pattern of relentless testing continues in secondary school, with external exams at 14, 16, 17 and 18.  ...]]></description>
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<title>The politics of fairness: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Conservatives battle Labour for ownership of the f-wordIN THE lexicon of political concepts, &#8220;fairness&#8221; is less exalted than liberty or equality. But that may be why it will be so keenly contested this autumn in Britain, a country more at home with common sense than grand theory.Gordon Brown plans to revive his ailing government under the theme of fairness. The Conservatives, for their part, are trying to counter the prime minister&#8217;s fightback before it gets going by claiming fairness for themselves. George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, made the pre-emptive strike in a speech he gave on August 20th.  ...]]></description>
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<title>Inflation: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[As long as prices surge the Bank of England cannot cut interest rates. That will not help a floundering governmentOVER the past few months the economy has developed a disquieting tendency to outgloom the gloomiest prediction. The housing market in particular has fared much worse than expected as house prices, turnover and residential investment have all tumbled. That is one big reason why economic activity is turning down sharply, trumping earlier forecasts of a moderate slowdown and pushing up the jobless count. But above all the upsurge in inflation has proved far more extreme than was once projected. The Bank of England has the task of keeping the annual rate of inflation, measured by the consumer-prices index (CPI), at 2%. As recently as March it appeared to be on top of the job: inflation, at 2.5%, was only a bit higher than the official target. But by May inflation had reached 3.3% and it vaulted to 4.4% in July. The 0.6 percentage-point rise since June, when inflation was 3.8%, was the biggest since the series started in 1997. ...]]></description>
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<title>The Tories and values: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[A mini-revival of social conservatism is in the airBRITISH conservatives have largely eschewed the culture wars fought by the American right. Tories have had old-fashioned views on marriage and other moral issues, to be sure, but they have rarely given them much prominence. The lack of a vocal religious right partly explains why they have had a cooler relationship with the Republicans than the Labour Party enjoys with the Democrats. And David Cameron, their leader, began his stewardship of the party in liberal style, declaring himself eminently relaxed about the exotic lifestyles to be found in modern Britain.All the more interesting, then, that recent weeks have seen tentative but unmistakable stirrings of social conservatism from the Tories. In July Mr Cameron gave a speech (in a church, no less) denouncing moral relativism. The fight against crime and other ills was, he said, being hamstrung by society&#8217;s &#8220;refusal to make judgments about what is good and bad&#8221;. On August 4th Michael Gove, the party&#8217;s schools spokesman, deplored the portrayal of women in men&#8217;s magazines. Conservatives such as Iain Duncan Smith, the party&#8217;s former leader, and Ed Vaizey, its arts spokesman, have also criticised the British Board of Film Classification for giving the new Batman film a lenient 12A rating. Even the party&#8217;s embrace of the &#8220;libertarian paternalism&#8221; espoused in &#8220;Nudge&#8221;, the year&#8217;s most talked-about book among policymakers, is telling.  ...]]></description>
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<title>Real ale: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Folk-drink or aspirational libation?EARLS COURT, a vast, high-ceilinged exhibition centre in west London, does not make for a promising pub. There are few seats, and the bright fluorescent lights do little to make drinkers feel at ease. But the lack of creature comforts did not dampen the high spirits of the students, beer connoisseurs and off-duty businessmen attending the Great British Beer Festival, billed as the world&#8217;s biggest, on August 5th-9th. They roamed from bar to bar, sampling over 450 varieties of beer and cider.Such good cheer may seem odd, given that beer seems to be falling out of favour in Britain. Sales have dropped by 9% over the past decade, in part because wine has grown more popular. But not all beers are the same. The festival was organised by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA), a 90,000-strong lobbying group promoting traditional, unpasteurised, unfiltered beer, stored and served from casks wherein, with live yeast, it continues to ferment. ...]]></description>
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<title>English spelling: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[The rules need updating, not scrappingGHOTI and tchoghs may not immediately strike readers as staples of the British diet; and even those most enamoured of written English&#8217;s idiosyncrasies may wince at this tendentious rendering of &#8220;fish and chips&#8221;. Yet the spelling, easily derived from other words*, highlights the shortcomings of English orthography. This has long bamboozled foreigners and natives alike, and may underlie the national test results released on August 12th which revealed that almost a third of English 14-year-olds cannot read properly. One solution, suggested recently by Ken Smith of the Buckinghamshire New University, is to accept the most common misspellings as variants rather than correct them. Mr Smith is too tolerant, but he is right that something needs to change. Due partly to its mixed Germanic and Latin origins, English spelling is strikingly inconsistent.  ...]]></description>
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<title>Nuclear disarmament: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[The new nuclear pioneersBRITAIN as a &#8220;disarmament laboratory&#8221;? Tell that one to veterans of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). Earlier this year they celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first Easter protest march to Aldermaston, home of the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) where research and design work continues on Britain&#8217;s Trident-based nuclear warheads. Yet AWE has lately been turning its nuclear skills to a rather different purpose: finding solutions to some of the many difficulties that disarmament would pose if it ever turned from slogan to reality.  To CND&#8217;s regret, and the annoyance of the Scottish Nationalists who want to eject the submarines that carry the country&#8217;s nuclear-tipped Trident missiles from their Faslane base on the Clyde, Britain is not about to disarm unilaterally. It remains one of the five officially recognised nuclear powers, alongside America, China, France and Russia. Over the protests of its own left-wingers, last year the Labour government persuaded Parliament to replace the deterrent&#8217;s ageing submarines; legislators will probably have to vote before long on replacing the missiles and warheads too.  ...]]></description>
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<title>Oyster cards: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[The contract for London&#8217;s transport card is up for grabsFEW phrases in British politics are more radioactive than &#8220;Private Finance Initiative&#8221; (PFI), a convoluted scheme under which government pays private firms to carry out work on its behalf. Many such contracts have been plagued by delays and costly legal disputes. For all the talk of greater efficiency, the real attraction of building and running schools and hospitals, say, through a PFI arrangement is that it allows the government to shove spending off the official balance sheet (although that loophole is to be closed next year). Yet not all PFIs have been disasters. One of the best has been London&#8217;s Oyster-card system, which allows travellers to store their entitlement to use the Tube or city buses on a computerised card that gets them through ticket barriers with a simple wave of the wallet. The little blue card has been a big success: over 10m have been issued since its launch in 2003, 6m are in active use and four-fifths of the journeys on London&#8217;s public transport involve one. ...]]></description>
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<title>Electric cars: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[For all the political hype, London is still ambivalent about themONCE the preserve of ageing former presidents, overfed golf stars and milkmen, electric vehicles are much in vogue these days. A survey this month by esure, a car-insurance company, found that 71% of British motorists would consider driving one, and all the main political parties have burnished their green credentials by supporting financial incentives for owners of cars with low carbon-dioxide emissions. This, and the painfully high price of petrol, has seen the number of electric cars in London increase dramatically, from 90 in 2003 to 1,600 in 2008.At first glance, this figure seems bound to rise further. Last month Boris Johnson, London&#8217;s new mayor, said that he was setting up a body to support electric-car drivers in the capital&#8212;the Electric Vehicle Partnership for London. Top of its list of things to do is installing more public points at which electric-car owners may top up their batteries. At the moment there are 40 spots dotted around the London streets where drivers who have paid GBP75 for a key can pull in and plug in free of charge, and some privately owned car parks have charging points too. Another 100 charging stations are now on the cards.  ...]]></description>
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<title>Pensions accounting: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Silly accounting may be obscuring a black hole in pension fundsUNITED UTILITIES and Scottish and Southern Energy are similar in many respects. Both are energy utilities that supply electricity and gas. Both employ thousands and run huge pension funds. Yet when calculating the cost of those pensions, the similarities end. The two companies have chosen to use very different assumptions&#8212;and these choices have a big impact on the pension surplus or deficit on their balance-sheets. When discounting their eventual obligations (figuring out the cost today of paying pensions years in the future), United Utilities has used a rate of 6%, Scottish and Southern one of 6.9%. The difference may not seem much, but Lane Clark &amp; Peacock, a firm of actuaries, reckons that Scottish and Southern&#8217;s pension liabilities come out about GBP350m lower than if it had used United&#8217;s rate&#8212;a material difference for a fund that in 2007 was GBP92m in the red. ...]]></description>
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<title>Catholics and Anglicans: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[What Roman Catholics fear from an Anglican splitTHE Archbishop of Canterbury was not the only church leader to be thankful that the Lambeth conference ended with the Anglican Communion still in one piece. An almost audible sigh of relief could be heard from the Vatican.&#8220;The last thing the pope would wish to do is support any kind of division,&#8221; said Keith Pecklers, a Jesuit professor of Liturgy at the Gregorian University in Rome. That may seem odd. If the Church of England splits, Catholicism stands to gain new adherents. Traditionally minded Anglican priests and bishops&#8212;and, in some cases, most of their flocks&#8212;can be expected to defect to Rome.  ...]]></description>
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<title>Crossing the Thames: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Trouble over bridging watersYOU would not expect Boris Johnson, London&#8217;s newly elected Conservative mayor, to be popular in Newham, a poor east London borough and Labour stronghold that has become a byword for deprivation and poverty. Yet the shock-haired Mr Johnson will have won at least a few grudging admirers with his opposition to the Thames Gateway Bridge, a GBP455m ($890m), six-lane road bridge across the Thames that was championed by Ken Livingstone, his predecessor.East London has traditionally been poorly served by transport infrastructure. The prospect of hosting the Olympic games in 2012 (see article), and a wider plan to build tens of thousands of new homes on semi-derelict land around them, has finally focused minds on the problem. The bridge nearest the site&#8212;Tower Bridge&#8212;is several hundred metres upstream and unsuited to the new traffic that redevelopment will bring. Yet Mr Livingstone&#8217;s big new bridge was unpopular with some residents, who complained that it would send more traffic thundering through their borough. Green groups, too, fretted that extra traffic would mean extra greenhouse gases.  ...]]></description>
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