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Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage,… Read more »

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John Prescott is expected to be on the honours list
Prescott and Howard made peers

By politics.co.uk staff John Prescott and Michael Howard were two of the big names to feature on the dissolution honours list. Des Browne, former defence secretary, and Ian Paisley have also won peerages, together with John Hutton and John Reid, the former home secretary. Sue Nye, the former aide to Gordon Brown who he criticised… Read more »

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Scottish secretary Danny Alexander, David Cameron, Alex Salmond and Scottish finance secretary John Swinney
Coalition’s cuts ‘to trouble devolved administrations’

By Alex Stevenson Reconciling London’s coalition government with Cardiff and Edinburgh could be harder than David Cameron thinks, a report has suggested. The prime minister quickly visited Scottish first minister Alex Salmond and Welsh first minister Ieuan Wyn Jones after taking office in a bid to improve relations between the devolved administrations and the national… Read more »