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Daily View 2×2:

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Hadron Collider II planned for Circle Line

The Independent reports:

London Underground is in talks with the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) about the possibility of using the 23km tunnel of the Circle Line to house a new type of particle accelerator similar to the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva.

One immediate benefit for passengers will be air-conditioning, installed to cool the huge superconducting electromagnets needed. Win-win!

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  • David Wright
    Not all British islands are alike legally. A resident of the Channel Islands, or the Isle of Man, is not automatically a British Citizen, nor can they vote in ...
  • Iain Donaldson
    Alex, wasn’t that how the conversion of council estates into housing companies started, with the mistaken idea that debt could be assigned outwith government ...
  • Alex B
    Not tax raising but debt raising capability. Anyway my experience is that local councils have no experience of large scale building projects. So whichever way y...
  • Iain Donaldson
    Jana, if Burnham's speech marks the beginning of a wider national debate, that can only be a good thing. England's over-centralisation is a genuine problem. How...
  • Paul Holmes
    Alex, you are not seriously suggesting that unelected and entirely unaccountable Housing Associations should be given tax raising powers? Also, can you point...