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As BP suddenly becomes a British company again – the capping of the oil spill at the Deepwater Horizon rig seems to be working – I apply the full weight of pedantry to the The Independent’s reporting of this and other important matters in this week’s Errors & Omissions column:
A report on the Business pages … on Wednesday went into commendable detail about the remarkable struggle to stop the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. It described the latest attempt to cap the well,
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