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? The Department for Transport has announced that 39 regional offices of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) are to close. More than 1,200 jobs are at risk.? The Office for National Statistics has said that supermarket price wars and the falling cost of petrol last month drove inflation down to 4.8% in November (on the consumer prices index measure), down from 5% in October. Owen Smith, a Labour Treasury spokesman, said: "Britain now has the highest inflation of any EU country and it's time out of touch Ministers took responsibility." (See 9.31am.)? Mark Thompson, the BBC director general, has told MPs that Jeremy Clarkson's comments about shooting strikers were "said entirely in jest and were not intended to be taken seriously".
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Bush's first postelection speech was a call for immigration reform—and an implicit rebuke of the failed GOP nominee Mitt Romney. ‘George W. Bush said immigrants fill ‘a critical gap' in America's labor market and ‘invigorate our soul.' On Tuesday morning,the Bush Center held a conference on immigration and economic growth at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. It was only the second major policy speech the former president has delivered since leaving office,and Bush let himself wax poetic on the subject of immigration: "Not only do immigrants help build our economy,they invigorate our soul." The fact that Romney received just 27 percent of Hispanic vote,eight years after Bush got 44 percent,was not far from attendees' minds,even though Romney's name went unmentioned.
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