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Change afoot in UK arms exports

By Stephen Fidler in London

Published: September 10 2007 19:21 | Last updated: September 10 2007 19:21

One of the world’s biggest arms fairs opens in London on Tuesday amid signs that Gordon Brown, prime minister, wants to change the way Britain sells arms abroad and as the show’s organiser tries to offload the business.

The four-day exhibition in the city’s Docklands, the fifth biennial arms fair, is described by Reed Elsevier, the organisers, as the fastest-growing defence show in the world.

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