Mr Dunne said he was not against the plans "in principle" to close eight police stations in his constituency and replace them with "community offices" in places like shopping centres.

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The theory behind the network neutrality principle, which the internet sometimes gets close to, is that a neutral network should be expected to deliver the most to a nation and the world economically, by serving as an innovation platform, and socially, by facilitating the widest variety of interactions between people.

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IAG, the parent company of British Airways and Iberia, said this morning it had reached agreement in principle to buy bmi, and expected to close the deal early next year.

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