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EDF Energy said it would put up prices by 3.9 per cent. BT Sport spent £897 million on the rights to show Champions League football for three years, provoking a 10 per cent fall in BSkyB shares. The rate of inflation fell from 2.7 per cent to 2.2, as measured by the consumer prices index; as measured by the retail prices index, it fell from 3.2 per cent to 2.6 per cent. Unemployment fell by 48,000 to 2.47 million. Barratts, with 75 shoe shops, went into administration. Flybe, the Exeter-based airline, announced plans to cut 500 jobs. Plans were published for an airport on an artificial island off Sheppey in the Thames Estuary, to be called Britannia airport. Sean Conway, 32, reached John O’Groats 135 days after diving into the sea at Land’s End; plagued by jellyfish, he was obliged to grow a beard en route.
A Royal Marine, referred to as Marine A during his court-martial, was convicted of the murder of a wounded Afghan prisoner of war; two others, Marine B and Marine C, were acquitted.
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