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- Two-minute silences will see off noisy nannyingMy friend Mike texts. Passing through Highbury & Islington Tube station in London last Thursday he had been trying to block his ears from the usual barrage of noisy nannying over the public address system — “always remember to carry a bottle of water” etc. It was Mike who alerted this Notebook to a new, endlessly repeated recorded announcement on London buses (“Hold on, the bus is about to move”) which I hope we helped shame Transport for London out of. That idiocy has now been abandoned.
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