Planning is the responsibility of local government, and, as Mr Osborne pointed out, councils already have the power to redesignate land for building.

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Employees are starting to act on a new law that allows you to redesignate money stashed in your traditional 401(k) into Roth money, keeping the money in your existing 401(k).

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At a pinch, Mr Trimble may be able to make up the necessary numbers by asking members of the Alliance Party and the Women's Coalition to redesignate themselves as unionists to give him a working majority.

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