Public space, the common area for culture and expression that had been so circumscribed in my childhood, has now been vastly expanded.

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Ms Cheong, meanwhile, has issued a public apology, saying that the noise from the wedding - in a common space known as a void deck underneath government-built housing often used for celebrations by different ethnic groups - had caused her to lash out.

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Whitehall departments could set up "common spending policies" and share office space, as part of a "third generation of changes in public services".

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