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David Cameron, the Prime Minister, said that he wanted to change the law so that there would be no ‘means of communication’ which ‘we cannot read’, in order to thwart terrorists. Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister, said this meant ‘scooping up vast amounts of information on millions of people — children, grandparents and elderly people who do nothing more offensive than visiting gardening centre websites’. Andrew Parker, the director general of MI5, said that 20 terrorist plots against the West had links to Syria in the past 14 months. Steven Emerson, an American commentator, apologised for saying on Fox News that in Britain ‘there are actual cities like Birmingham that are totally Muslim where non-Muslims just simply don’t go in’. High winds caused the grounded 51,000-ton car-transporter Hoegh Osaka to drag its anchors and move 100 yards down the Solent.
The annual rate of inflation, measured by the Consumer Prices Index, fell to 0.5
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