Mr Farnell said the borough council needed to "immediately adopt a Core Strategy to prevent any future opportunistic development" in the borough.

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Cutting through all the talk about what will happen to its troubled Symbian operating system and future OS, Meego, new Chief Executive Stephen Elop said Nokia would streamline its development strategy for both, centering on a cross-platform framework called Qt.

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