The operation, which focuses on Oxford Street, Edgware Road and Marble Arch, has led to 796 arrests since November.

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The Guardian gives over its page three to the picture of a woman being hurriedly led away from Edgware Road station.

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Next door to a Safeway supermarket on the Edgware Road in London, a group of British accountants and tax experts has built a business service called GlobalExpense that handles employees' expenses over the internet.

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