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Lib Dems criticise flights bill

London : United Kingdom | Feb 21, 2010 at 2:00 PM PST
Source: BBC
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Overall government departments spent more than £21.8m on more than 210,000 flights in 2008-09, it said. Party spokesman Simon Hughes said: Government staff should "use trains and video-conferencing more so they fly around the country less". "Civil servants are spending staggering amounts of taxpayers'... FULL ARTICLE AT BBC
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown (right) with Conservative Party Leader David Cameron at the House of Commons in November. Brown said on Tuesday he was relishing the chance of taking part in historic televised debates with the leaders of the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats in the run up to next year's election.
 
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