26 MARCH 1988, page 5

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IT IS reported that the Minister for the Arts has decided to call a halt to the building of the new British Library. This is welcome • news for users of the Round Reading Room......

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1706; Telex 27124; Fax 242 0603 ENGLAND'S INANITY n most political subjects, the House of Commons is rancorously partisan. Tri- vial differences between parties are magni- fied......