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Fri 07 Jul 1999Millennium Bug swatter proves to be New Labour action man for all seasons
Deep in the bowels of the Department of Trade and Industry, Don Cruickshank is huddled with a colleague over a multicoloured chart showing Britain's preparedness for the Millennium Bug.
As he pores over the details, lamenting the failure of eight as yet unnamed local authorities to get anywhere near readiness, he paints a nightmare vision of meltdown in local services: schools that cannot be opened, sewage spilling on to the streets and social services in chaos.
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