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David Cameron, the Prime Minister, visited China with four Cabinet ministers and 43 business leaders. He said he hoped for ‘greater political opening’ in the country. A £750 million order for Rolls-Royce engines and a £45 million order for pigs were announced during the trip. A Special Immigration Appeals Commission upheld an appeal by Abu Hamza, who is in jail, against an attempt to remove his British citizenship. There were three nights of rioting at Moorland prison, south Yorkshire. The bishops of Fulham, Ebbsfleet and Richborough, and two retired bishops, announced that they were joining the Catholic Church as members of an ordinariate allowing the use of ‘liturgical books proper to the Anglican tradition’. Twinings, the tea blenders, is to close its factory in North Shields and open one in Poland, with a €12 million EU grant.
Two High Court judges sitting as an election court, the first for 99 years, declared the election (by 103 votes) of Phil Woolas, the Labour candidate, as MP for Oldham East and Saddleworth was void, because of false statements in his election leaflets, and they ordered a fresh election.
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