In stark contrast, the Conservatives support NMD and advocate its development as a pan-Nato defensive system.

BBC: National Missile Defence

The fraudulent application was made before the introduction of the pan-London admissions system last autumn, whereby parents now fill in just one form with all their choices.

BBC: NEWS | UK | Education | Head warned over school place

SNCF's problem: the euro will still lack a pan-European cheque-clearing system.

ECONOMIST: Jeux avec fronti��res

They also look very similar to the simulations coming out of Piomas (Pan-Arctic Ice-Ocean Modelling and Assimilation System), an influential computer model that has been used to estimate Arctic sea-ice volume and which has been the basis for several predictions about when summer sea ice might disappear completely.

BBC: Cryosat spots Arctic sea-ice loss in autumn