The FDA's new message: just providing another option is no longer good enough.

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At the time, the message was that fares would rise no faster under the new privatised railway than under BR.

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News came this week that the agent for Peyton Manning, Tom Condon, drove to Indianapolis to deliver the message to Colts general manager Bill Polian that there would be no further negotiations on a new contract for Manning, whose existing contract expires after this season.

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