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Now that chess has become fashionable again (Observations, 8 January), is there any chance of the NS reintroducing a chess column? I seem to remember that there was one years [...]

Enterprise zones (EZs) in the UK can work well, despite their negative image. Whilst in some regions no new investment has resulted from EZs, and in some cases the result has just been local relocation, in others a considerable number of news businesses have been set up as a result of enterprise zones. The successful areas tend to have offer particular advantages of their own as well as the advantages offered by EZs themselves. Examples of successes are Clydebank, UK, Swansea, UK, and Lanarkshire, UK. Ideal characteristics of locations for EZ's are listed.

There has been much recent talk of Britishness as opposed to Englishness or Scottishness, not least because of the tercetenary of the Treaty of Union--a Treaty which created a new […]