The UK in serious decline

President Bush has a warm reception awaiting him when he visits London. The BBC reports that the UK is officially on high alert, but within this is a tier of internal and usually secret levels - which have gone from "substantial" to "severe general". The internal alerts are for the security services only, including the police, the army, MI6 and MI5, and not usually made public. BBC home affairs correspondent Margaret Gilmore is quoted as saying: 

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