"Of course, if it does go ahead it will mean that the next time a monarch reaches their 60th anniversary we'll have to build another tower -- but I don't suppose we'll have to worry about that for a while, " he joked.

CNN: May 4, 2012 -- Updated 1058 GMT (1858 HKT)

Of course, assuming Apple does go ahead with the iTV name, it could always choose to call it something else in the UK, and it's also worth noting that ITV has been fighting to gain the US mark for the name since at least 2006, and has so far failed to do so.

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Of course we will be insisting that some of those projects do go ahead.

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Britain's sports minister, Hugh Robertson, agreed the race should go ahead, but acknowledged the challenge of securing the course, which goes past many iconic buildings including Buckingham Palace.

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Of course Italy was the 3rd largest economy in the Euro Zone and it was judged impossible to go ahead with the project without the Italians.

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