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If you want to visit the UK for a quick trip, it's easy: turn up at the airport, say you'll be in the country for a few days, tell them the truth: you're speaking at a confernce, attending a training course, holding meetings or checking samples. No problem, says the immigration man. Step right in.
Not any more he doesn't. If you've not got a briefcase full of papers to prove your story, you'll be going straight back on the return plane.
As Iceland's financial system freezes, measures to protect depositors have a disturbing undertone.
E.U. Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson's fortunes are likely to be in freefall unless his best pal Tony Blair succeeds in his current endeavours to garner support to be appointed President of Europe - something he thought had been lost to him. Now, Mandelson is trying to curry favour with Gordon Brown who has never been a Mandelson fan and is unlikely to re-appoint Mandelson - but does think that gambling can be the saviour of the British economy.
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Peter Mandelson the EU's Trade Commissioner's appointment came at the hands of his bestest friend Tony Blair.