Or, rather, it employs two ring-shaped half-pipes that rotate with respect to one another (the lower one remaining fixed while the upper one revolves along with the building).

ECONOMIST: Monitor

She wants parental leave when a baby is born to be reformed along mainly Nordic lines: ring-fencing half a year off for mothers and another half-year for fathers, on a use-it-or-lose-it basis.

ECONOMIST: Who looks after the children?

What seemed to be something of a threat then - the Royal's already shed half of its investment bank, so force us to ring-fence and see what happens - has turned into more of a prediction.

BBC: Lloyds co-operates, RBS shrinks

Taumaholo Taufahema powered over to give Mark Ring's side a 21-12 half-time lead, but after the break Vale notched an early try, Scott Mitchell breaking through poor defence to score underneath the posts.

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