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John Prescott on HMP

March 3rd, 2005 at 12:19pm Under Horley Master Plan+ Google News

John Prescott rejected the concerns of the regional planning authorities and raised the house building targets above what they had said was the absolute maximum that could be anticipated without intolerable damage to the environment and the Green Belt. Read more…

I find it interesting today to discover that if you type fuc*wit (without the asterisk) into google.co.uk ’s UK only search and press the “I feel Lucky” button that John Prescott’s biography appears.

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