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Published 12 December 2005

Prisoners held in wooden cabins are to be given their own keys to use in the event of a fire. The report by the National Audit Office says: "The risk of fire means prisoners have their own keys to get in and out of the building."

However, the Home Office has denied prisoners kept in wooden cabins - used to alleviate overcrowding - have been given keys because of the fire risk. It says the move was made for "protection of their possessions".
London Evening Standard (Sigrid Rabiger)

Yet Mr Bennett did not fit the [typical futures trader] mould. He read geography at St Catherine's College, Oxford, played rugby and fellow students remember him as "straightforward". "He gives a pretty good impression at first, he's pretty proper. He had a bow tie on one time I met him," said a Chicago futures industry executive.
Financial Times (Andrew Warren)

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