But it gave the green light to a slimmed-down version, with so-called "customer-facing" areas - such as libraries and one stop shops - staying within the council system.

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And if cars are designed to communicate with one another, what is there to stop the system being targeted by cybercriminals?

BBC: What if a robot drove your car?

But Mr Morgan said the flaw in the system to create a "one-stop shop" still had to be reformed.

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When boatloads of immigrants began arriving on beaches near Gibraltar in the 1990s, it installed an early-warning radar system based on one that Israel developed to stop seaborne Palestinian guerrilla raids.

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Any delay in the multiple-line system will stop the line completely, while a delay in a single line might just delay one shopper.

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