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Daniel Allen Freelance journalist

London's traffic congestion charge leaves nurses in a fix

This is technical so stick with me. I have been broadbanded, which means, in essence, that I can waste time much quicker. It involves asking a nice man at the telephone exchange to poke a long piece of wire down the cable leading to my house and wiggle it about to make the cable – or ‘band’ – broader. Hence, broadband. With me? As a result, I can connect to the internet at the speed of light, whereas in the dark days of dial-up I could wallpaper a large room while I waited for my favourites to upload.

Nursing Standard. 17, 20, 25-25. doi: 10.7748/ns.17.20.25.s47

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