After all, she was the beloved daughter of the house and he but a poor relation.

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Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said the English Baccalaureate "reinforces the idea that anything other than a traditional academic route is the poor relation".

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Gas does now contribute 35% to power generation, but rock-bottom prices and a sniffiness about gas as oil's poor relation mean that exploiting its bounty (Saudi Arabia apparently has the world's fifth-largest gas reserves) has proven hard.

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But if this forecast is right, we could see a return to talk of being held back as England's poor relation at least as much as being the next Norway.

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