To get ahead, get an accent. The lilt of Scottish and southern Irish voices are much more attractive than the Queen’s finest English.
In a boost to Gordon Brown and the Scottish and Irish diaspora, new research to find out what accents people like - and dislike - most has found that the English are [...]

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Ministers are to investigate arrangements for erecting mobile phone masts in the light of growing fears that they may cause cancer and other diseases because of “electronic smog”.
They will review the exceptionally favourable rules that allow mobile phone companies to escape normal planning regulations and stop councils from considering the effects of the masts [...]

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