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08 September 2008

I'm Reading This Morning ...

- The Federation of Small Business campaign - Keep Trade Local

- Iraq's juvenile prison system (75 boys in a cell about 5 metres by 10 metres, on double bunks or the concrete floor)

- How climate change will affect the Spanish wine industry

- A survey by Great Ormond Street about young people's lack of knowledge about mental health

- The Brave New World of the Premiership -- Manchester-City-branded mopeds, restaurants, energy drinks, and Tata cars
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