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Old December 20th 12, 10:53 AM posted to uk.transport.london,misc.transport.urban-transit,uk.railway
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Default Not-very dry run for 150-year anniversary Met steam

allantracy wrote:

Perhaps it is time to change the Guardian's name back to "The Manchester
Guardian".


Does the Guardian know where Manchester is? Though to be fair to them,
it isn't on the Underground map.


Aren't they based in a tax haven nowadays?


Not the Guardian, which being heavily loss-making (for real), has no
corporation tax to avoid. But its parent company and Apax have created
quite a complex structure that appears to be constructed to avoid tax on
the Auto Trader deal:
http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com...save-millions/