Its isolated branch on a Lake Victoria island receives money from the sky: with no landing strip, planes drop bags of cash to be collected by staff and security guards.

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Germany's BKA said users should not pay the fine "under any circumstances" and added that neither the BKI or GVU collected cash in this way from those suspected of viewing illegal images or pirating content.

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Meanwhile, the shift to digital books has fueled an arms race among digital start-ups seeking to cash in on the massive pool of data collected by e-reading devices and reading apps.

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Trudie Ward has put a bottle for cash contributions on the counter of her local vintage shop and has already collected hundreds of pounds.

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It bases such decisions on data collected with a point-of-sale system connected to every cash register.

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Yet, Basques and Navarrese apart, nearly all their cash comes from the centre: on top of specific grants, 30% of the income tax collected in the region goes back to it.

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Another newspaper, ABC, headlined its story: "Luis Barcenas accuses the Popular Party leadership of having collected in B, " the letter Spaniards typically mention when referring to secretive payments made in cash, with the aim of avoiding taxes.

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