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Blog: Stephanie Flanders

When it comes to the government's budget plans, we know that Gordon Brown does not always tell it entirely straight. Remember last summer, when he was still refusing to utter the word "cut"? But listening to him today, you have...

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A few years before he died, Sir George Cayley (1773-1857) of Brompton-by-Sawdon, Yorkshire designed and flew the first man-carrying glider.

A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. QUENTIN CRISP

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  • 1941: US congress passes the Lend-Lease Bill, authorising huge war loans to Britain and the Soviet Union.

  • 1985: Reformer Mikhail Gorbachev is confirmed as the Soviet Union’s new - and ultimately final - leader.

  • 2004: In Madrid, ten bombs planted on rush-hour trains by Islamic extremists kill 191 people and injure 1,800.

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