Brown, an investment bank, is the desire to gain pricing power, something that firms rarely discuss for fear of attracting the attention of antitrust regulators.

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Today's primary school children tend to learn songs and lines for a play, as well as useful tools like times tables, says Mark Brown, head teacher of St Mary's Catholic Primary School in Axminster, Devon, but rarely whole poems, as their grandparents would have done.

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