Right up to about 10 o'clock on election night the local press treated him like a cartoon character.

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Jet Lag Rooster encourages travellers to pace themselves accordingly, which means it may take a person travelling between Atlanta and Moscow about seven to 10 days to shift their body clock the necessary 10 hours.

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My hope is to tell you what ministers, MPs and officials are saying about politics and policy before they reach the 10 O'Clock News - the whispers on the breeze and the mood on the benches.

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For what it's worth, about 10 days ago I said on the Ten O'Clock News that Spanish banks may need around 85bn euros of additional capital, including the 23.5bn already requested by Spain's fourth biggest bank, Bankia.

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