Replacing 40 different directives with one broad band of red tape should make chemical registration faster and less cumbersome, says Franco Bisegna of the European Chemical Industry Council, a lobby group.

ECONOMIST: Red tape in Europe

Mr Dowson was reported to have been the organiser of a flute band in Cumbernauld which recorded a tape in honour of Ulster Freedom Fighter member Michael Stone.

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After fruitless attempts to make contact with chief executive of the band's record label Apple, Neil Aspinall, the family decided to auction the tape at Christies in London.

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In the late '70s, when 24-track recording was possible but there was no reliable way to automate mixing, mixing records was a live performance, with the producer, the engineer and half the band called in to push faders up and down as the track was bounced to the master tape.

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