In December it closed to counter floods for the first time in two years.

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Android diehards counter that many Apple fans will blindly buy up anything the company produces and that the closed iOS system stifles creativity.

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And it's this very measure that they were forced to drop from the Counter Terrorism Bill earlier this year after clear signs that MPs and peers would oppose inquests behind closed doors.

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