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<description><![CDATA[Quentin Bryce is sworn in as Australia's governor general, the first woman to serve as Queen Elizabeth's representative there.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Loud, dirty and destructive, urban gulls would never win prizes for popularity. But should they be culled?]]></description>
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<title>Crime op results in 109 arrests</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A summer crackdown on burglary and other crimes in Belfast leads to over 100 arrests, the police reveal. ]]></description>
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<title>Belarus kids banned from visits</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Children who suffered in the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster are banned from visiting NI for medical treatment.]]></description>
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<title>Life term for &#x27;evil&#x27; wife killer</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A former accountant who stabbed his wife 86 times at the family home in Renfrewshire is jailed for at least 19 years.]]></description>
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<title>Brown &#x27;backs more Holyrood power&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The SNP claims that Gordon Brown is "caving in to pressure" to concede more powers to Holyrood.]]></description>
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<title>Heavy rain brings flooding calls</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Emergency teams are called to flooding incidents across south and west Wales, after heavy downpours. ]]></description>
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<title>Memorial fund for Antigua couple</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The family of newly weds shot on their honeymoon launch a memorial fund to train future medics.]]></description>
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<title>The City of London: Defying augury </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Can the stock exchange and the City see off the competition?AS THE British economy heads straight for the doldrums, the City is struggling too. Recent moves by the London Stock Exchange designed to see off encroaching rivals may cost the LSE custom rather than increase it. And even if the 300-year-old market can change its ways, the financial centre it buttresses may well be shaky. The signs are not good.This week the LSE slashed its trading fees to match those of electronic trading platforms (known as MTFs), and said it would allow ultra-fast computerised traders to put their machines close to the LSE&#8217;s own computers. This will save the increasingly important program traders precious nanoseconds between sending an order and executing the trade. In July the stock exchange struck a deal with Lehman Brothers, an investment bank, to form Baikal, a so-called &#8220;dark pool&#8221; that allows high-volume trades to be executed bit-by-bit off-exchange and out of the public eye&#8212;that is, in competition with the LSE itself. The LSE still has a near-monopoly in listing stocks and providing price data, but increasing volumes are being traded on electronic platforms. Chi-X, launched last year, already has 15% of London&#8217;s share-trading volume. Other rivals are queuing up.  ...]]></description>
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<title>The economy: Home&#x27;s where the hurt is </title>
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<description><![CDATA[There have been far worse times for the economy but few for a chancellorIT WAS, perhaps, frustration at his own helplessness that prompted Alistair Darling&#8217;s dire prognosis. The chancellor of the exchequer told the Guardian, in an interview reported on August 30th, that economic times were &#8220;arguably the worst they&#8217;ve been in 60 years&#8221;. His remarks raised fears of a harder economic landing for Britain than predicted and helped push sterling to new lows against the euro. His slip may have had more to do with his own anxieties (see article) than with the fate of the economy.Only the terminally gloomy expect a downturn to match the deep recession of the early 1990s, or a repeat of the grim 1970s. Yet Mr Darling had a point, even if he made it clumsily. It is rare to be hit by so many problems in such a short space of time. A spike in the cost of oil and food has poked a big hole in consumers&#8217; pockets, leaving less money for other spending. Meanwhile the banking crisis has cut the supply of credit, hastening a collapse in the housing market. ...]]></description>
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<title>The army in Afghanistan: Dam difficult </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Britain scores a military success. But it will take much more to beat the TalibanTHE earthen wall holding back the turquoise lake at Kajaki has stood as a rebuke to British forces for more than two years. Work on refurbishing its hydroelectric power station all but stopped when British and other NATO troops arrived in southern Afghanistan in 2006, reigniting the war with the Taliban.More than two seasons of inconclusive fighting, and the death of more than 100 British soldiers, have failed to secure southern Afghanistan. If anything, the Taliban have become bolder, staging more ambitious attacks and extending the insurgency to the gates of Kabul. As the Americans have reinforced understrength British forces in Helmand, relations between the allies have become tetchy. The Afghan government, too, has been critical of Western troops for killing Afghan civilians. ...]]></description>
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<title>Titian in Britain: Exit, unfunded? </title>
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<description><![CDATA[The fate of two Old Masters reveals the strengths and weaknesses of the laws governing the sale of artPAINTING, said Ambrose Bierce, is &#8220;the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic&#8221;. In Titian&#8217;s case, the critics have purred with enthusiasm. Lucian Freud hailed the two paintings offered for sale by the Duke of Sutherland, Diana and Actaeon and Diana and Callisto, as &#8220;simply the most beautiful pictures in the world&#8221;. And the Bridgewater Collection to which they belong is widely regarded as the world&#8217;s most important private collection of Old Masters.Yet keeping the paintings in the country will be a struggle. Although the duke is offering the Titians for much less than their market price, the National Galleries in England and Scotland still have to find GBP100m&#8212;almost five times the highest amount ever raised to keep art in Britain. And Britain&#8217;s notoriously liberal art-export laws do not provide much of a safety net. Between 1995 and 2005, 211 works of art totalling GBP274m in value were judged pre-eminent and worth keeping; yet money could be raised to hang on to only GBP105m-worth of them.  ...]]></description>
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<title>Bagehot: Deny, deflect, detonate </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Is economic woe driving the government&#8217;s political problems or vice versa?WHEN the Kursk, a Russian submarine, sank in 2000, Vladimir Putin&#8217;s government at first pretended the situation was not as awful as it seemed. Next, it blamed outsiders (in the shape of a phantom foreign craft). Finally, when obfuscation would no longer wash, it claimed that the crew had all died immediately, and thus that nothing the authorities might have done could have helped. In its efforts to explain Britain&#8217;s subsiding economy, the government of Gordon Brown&#8212;another leader installed by opaque anointment rather than open choice&#8212;seems to have adopted a similar approach to crisis management. The effect can be summarised as deny, deflect and detonate.For as long as he could, Mr Brown denied the seriousness of the downturn. Things, he insisted, had been much worse in the early 1990s; the government was taking the &#8220;tough long-term decisions&#8221; needed to avert a repeat of such Tory-inflicted hardship. Growth would remain stronger than the gloomy analysts were predicting. Next came deflect: when price rises and the collapse of the housing market became too stark to spin away, Mr Brown acknowledged the difficulties but stressed that, in the words of the song, &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t me&#8221;. He deflected the blame on to irresponsible foreigners, such as greedy American financiers and Arab oil sheikhs. He and his chancellor, Alistair Darling, nevertheless insisted that Britain&#8217;s &#8220;resilient&#8221; economy would withstand the credit crunch and other global squalls better than others. ...]]></description>
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<title>Social housing: Estate management </title>
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<description><![CDATA[New proposals are likely to expand council housingHALF the government&#8217;s efforts this week were spent trying to convince wary buyers to set off down the risky path of home ownership. Soft loans and a temporary break from stamp duty, dangled tantalisingly on September 2nd, might tempt a few to take the plunge. But those who are weighing the risks and rewards of buying must have been alarmed that the government was simultaneously promoting rescue packages for those who had entered the housing market and got burned.Chief among these bail-outs was a GBP200m &#8220;mortgage-rescue&#8221; scheme, under which some 6,000 households in danger of having their home repossessed are to be saved. Councils and housing associations will be able to buy a share of the property, reducing the occupier&#8217;s mortgage. In some cases the authorities could buy it outright and let it back to its erstwhile owner, turning it into de facto social housing. ...]]></description>
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<title>Faiths and schools: Religious rights and wrongs </title>
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<description><![CDATA[A campaign to loosen the grip of the godly on state educationIN BRITAIN, a largely secular country where churches retain their historic role in education, there is little agreement about the place of religion in schools. Some fret that schools for children of a particular faith foster segregation; others cite parents&#8217; right to educate their offspring as they see fit, adding that religious schools outperform secular ones (though opponents say that is because richer children go to them). Such rows tend to entrench attitudes, rather than lead to resolution.Now campaigners, both godly and godless, are trying to change that. September 1st saw the launch of Accord, a coalition of Christians, Jews, humanists, secularists and teachers who hope to sidestep fruitless rows about whether religions should run schools and instead get them to do it more fairly. They take issue with schools favouring children of their own faith in admissions: &#8220;Churches should be championing social justice and equality for all in education, not privileging their own,&#8221; says the Rev Christopher Rowland of Accord. And they want to stop schools reserving jobs for co-religionists and those who follow church teachings in their private lives. ...]]></description>
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<title>Gordon Brown&#x27;s Scotland: Backyard blues </title>
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<description><![CDATA[The prime minister&#8217;s native land is no longer his redoubtNOT only is Gordon Brown leading a country the OECD claims is about to enter recession; he also flew north on September 4th to find the part of it he calls home in revolt. Chief among the prime minister&#8217;s difficulties in Scotland is a resurgent Scottish National Party (SNP), which is expected to win a parliamentary by-election in the Labour-held seat of Glenrothes. The contest, which was prompted by the death of Labour MP John MacDougall in August, is unlikely to take place before late October. The SNP holds the equivalent seat in the Scottish Parliament and needs a 14.5% swing, less than the 22% it secured when it snagged Glasgow East from Labour in a by-election in July, in order to send an MP to Westminster. ...]]></description>
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<title>Minority politics: Britain&#x26;#8217;s Obama </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Why a top non-white political leader is some way off in Britain&#8220;WE&#8217;RE looking at the politics of hope, as opposed to the politics of fear.&#8221; That sentiment has spurred millions of Americans to support Barack Obama this year in his bid to become president. The words on this occasion, though, were spoken by a Briton. Simon Woolley, head of Operation Black Vote, a campaign group, wants to use Mr Obama&#8217;s popularity to get Britain&#8217;s racial minorities more engaged in the political process.The prospect of a British Obama&#8212;a politician of colour who could become a national leader&#8212;seems plausible given the racial mix in London alone. But differences between Britain and America explain why it may take a while. Only 8% of Britons are non-white, whereas blacks on their own account for 12% of the American population: the pool from which potential leaders may emerge is smaller. Britain&#8217;s more fragmented minorities also have less shared political consciousness than African-Americans, whose experience of slavery and segregation produced the zeal behind the civil-rights movement and campaigns for affirmative action. ...]]></description>
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<title>Immigration trends: Poles depart </title>
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<description><![CDATA[The largest wave of immigration in British history is petering out, and may soon reverse. But east European migrants have left a lasting markSUPERMARKET aisles offer amateur ethnographers rich opportunities for fieldwork. American pockets in London can be identified by the Thanksgiving displays in November; sour cherry juice suggests that Turks are close at hand. Now great rows of tinned borscht announce a newer arrival. Recent immigration from eastern Europe has been on a truly grand scale: Tesco, Britain&#8217;s biggest retailer, now runs a groceries website in Polish.Just over a million people have so far come to Britain from the eight central and east European countries that joined the European Union in 2004. John Salt, a geographer at University College London, reckons it is the biggest influx in British history, at least in gross terms (immigration by French Huguenots in the 17th century may have been bigger relative to the population at the time). Poles, who have made up about two-thirds of the newcomers, are now the largest group of foreign nationals in Britain, up from 13th place five years ago. ...]]></description>
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<title>Population changes: Multiplying and arriving </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Immigrants and babies could make Britain the EU&#8217;s biggest countryIF DEMOGRAPHY is destiny, then the British are roaring forward. On August 27th Eurostat, the European Union&#8217;s statistical service, predicted that by 2060 Britain would be the EU&#8217;s largest country, with a population of 77m (compared with around 61m today). Germany, the current top dog, will see its 82m citizens dwindle to 71m over the same period. Britain&#8217;s boom will be fuelled by a mix of immigration and a comparatively high birth rate (partly a consequence of the higher fecundity of its immigrants).Besides getting bigger, Britain will also remain youthful, at least by EU standards. Although the share of people over 65 will rise from 16% to 25% by 2060, that will still mean fewer greybeards than anywhere else in Europe except Luxembourg. Eurostatisticians prophesy that Britain will suffer less stress on its pensions and social-security systems than faster-ageing countries. Yet not all Britons revel in the idea of millions of new citizens.  ...]]></description>
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<title>The next Olympics: The morning after </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Measures to further sport will work better for the elite than for the massesWHILE lacking, perhaps, the cohesion of the men&#8217;s coxless four or the cycling pursuit team who won golds for Britain in Beijing, the unlikely quartet of footballers and pop stars led by Boris Johnson at least managed to accept the Olympic flag from China without dropping it. The whimsy of the British performance at the Olympic handover, featuring twirling umbrellas and a doubledecker bus, suggested that Britain would not attempt to match the pageantry and stadiums that cost China billions. It plans to rely heavily on what London&#8217;s mayor hopefully calls Britain&#8217;s &#8220;wit and flair&#8221;.As far as the sporting competition is concerned, however, Britain will give no quarter. Basking in the afterglow of the country&#8217;s most successful Olympic games in a century, Gordon Brown has big plans for developing sport in Britain. The prime minister&#8217;s initiatives include attempts to get more girls involved, funding to give schoolchildren five hours of sport a week and a return to competitive games in schools (on the wane since the 1960s). More money is also expected for community sports facilities. ...]]></description>
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<title>Sex education: Never too young to learn </title>
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<description><![CDATA[A debate over introducing the birds and the bees in primary schoolsA COMMON complaint about education in Britain is that everything begins too early: four-year-olds start school shortly after abandoning afternoon naps; toddlers barely able to hold a pen are supposed to form letters. Yet one subject, some say, is left too late. Sex education first appears on the compulsory curriculum when pupils between 11 and 14 years old learn the basics in science class; relationships, sexually transmitted diseases and the inadvisability of conceiving in one&#8217;s teens are relegated to the optional &#8220;personal, social and health education&#8221;. Primary schools need only have a policy on sex education&#8212;and for some that policy is &#8220;we don&#8217;t teach it&#8221;. Backed by sexual-health and children&#8217;s charities, a cross-party group of MPs is trying to change all that. In an open letter to the government, published in the Daily Telegraph on August 26th, they call for all sex education, not just the mechanics, to be made compulsory, and to start much earlier. That, they say, could help to cut the number of British teenagers who become pregnant: at 40 per thousand girls under 18 each year, Britain&#8217;s rate is outstripped in the developed world only by America&#8217;s.  ...]]></description>
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<title>Bagehot: Is tax back? </title>
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<description><![CDATA[The economic downturn has brought taxation back to the centre of political debate&#8212;but inside parties rather than between themONE of the oddities of the New Labour era has been the disappearance of tax (politically, not financially). The public has seemed blithely confident that the share of the nation&#8217;s wealth taken by government has been more or less correct&#8212;even as that proportion has risen by a couple of percentage points. After his three predecessors failed in their bids to beat Labour by challenging that consensus, David Cameron, the Conservative leader, decided to join his opponents instead, abandoning tax levels as an electoral issue. Now, suddenly, tax may be making a comeback.Gordon Brown will soon embark on his latest relaunch. At its centre will be what some describe as an &#8220;economic plan&#8221; (though others, wary of inflating expectations, prefer less grandiose labels). The plan (or whatever) seems set to have two main components: assistance for the grim housing market and help with fuel costs for low-income families. Mr Brown is being urged by some in his party to make tax part of the plan too, by, for example, raising rates on very high-earners to fund a cut for the rest. But the idea that has caused most excitement is that of imposing a windfall tax on energy firms&#8212;whose tariffs have been rising along with their profits&#8212;to pay for a fuel subsidy. ...]]></description>
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<title>Buying airports: Ward of the state </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Britain&#8217;s privatised airports may slip back into public handsALONG with cricket and the industrial revolution, privatisation must rank high on any list of Britain&#8217;s intangible exports that have helped shape the world. Margaret Thatcher&#8217;s wholesale auctioning of huge parts of the state, from telephones to water utilities, has been widely trumpeted (if less widely emulated) as the cure for all economic ills. So one of the ironies to emerge from plans by the competition regulator to break up BAA, the privatised company which owns Britain&#8217;s biggest airports, is that the leading bidder for some of its airstrips is itself in public ownership.Two decades after they were privatised, Britain&#8217;s main airports are a shambles. Terminals and runways are so overcrowded that flights depart late and bags are lost. Their perennially faulty plumbing has become a point of pride for many visitors from Africa; the lavatories at the airports back home work better. ...]]></description>
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<title>Weak sterling: Vote of no confidence </title>
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<description><![CDATA[The pound&#8217;s fall is signalling deeper worries about the economyWHATEVER reassurances ministers may offer about the prospects for the economy, the judgment of the foreign-exchange markets is more telling, for it is backed by money. That judgment is a harsh one. The pound has fallen sharply against the dollar over the past month, closing at $1.84, its lowest for over two years, on August 26th.Sterling has not been alone in slipping against the dollar. The euro fell almost as steeply during August. But the latest setback to the pound follows a bigger and longer devaluation against the euro that started a year ago (see chart). Altogether, sterling&#8217;s trade-weighted index (in which the euro has a weight of 54% compared with the dollar&#8217;s 16.5%) has declined by over 13% in the past 12 months, reaching its lowest point since 1996. ...]]></description>
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<title>Commercial property: That sinking feeling </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: The London laboratory </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: A new departure for London&#x26;#8217;s airports </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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