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Likewise, curtains must reach the floor, and puddle a bit, and be blackout-lined. Unlike the recently-made-over Holiday Inn Birmingham, where they uncleverly stop ONE inch above the bottom of the window recess, which at dawn makes it irrelevant whether there are curtains or not. This was obviously dreamed up by the same Holiday Inn designer or executive who thought it was a good idea to put the computer plugs at desk level (which it is), but then to position FOUR DRINKING GLASSES right in front of the plugs (across the room from the mini-bar) so you have to pick them up and find somewhere else to put them before you can start to get online, a fatal hospitality flaw which must now be being replicated in thousands of their identikit rooms around the globe. The plug thing is important, though. I have scrabbled around the carpets of Europe admiring ancient furballs while trying to power up my Macbook Air.

"It had the familiar toothy grin of T. rex, but its snout was long and slender, with a row of horns on top," said Edinburgh's Dr Steve Brusatte.

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It began to reap the dividends of a peace process, but faces the formidable tasks of reviving a shattered economy and forging national unity.