Data integration processes (often called ETL when building a data warehouse or data prep when an analyst is massaging data) can take place in Pentaho so that the massive work of massaging and cleaning data does not have to be tightly bound to a specific data warehouse technology or to complicated programming methods.

FORBES: Ideas for Solving the 'Data' Problem First, the 'Big' Problem Second: The Pentaho Way

MEPs will also be much more tightly bound by their parties' manifestos.

ECONOMIST: This time it matters

But the move follows a string of incidents where either security in Passport - or the Hotmail free e-mail system to which it is tightly bound - has proved to be lax.

BBC: New flaw puts Passport offline

There are bound to be further demands for the NHS to be more tightly regulated, although former Labour health secretary Alan Milburn recommends instead greater openness, better public reporting and more honesty from health managers the moment things go wrong.

BBC: Stafford Hospital report to shape the health debate

It does not want to be bound by the EU's fiscal rules, but nor does it want a more tightly integrated euro zone leading to a two-speed Europe.

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

While the caesium is hard for plants and animals to take up when it is tightly bound to the soil, once in solution (dissolved in water) it can be more readily absorbed.

BBC: Daunting challenge of Fukushima clean-up