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leave out from `significant' to end and add `evidence indicating that the United Kingdom is firmly placed in the correct time zone and that Spain, France and the Benelux countries are in the wrong zone; further notes that 90 per cent. of the UK lies west of the Greenwich meridian which is the median point of the GMT/BST time zone; and concludes that any change to the existing arrangements would prove as unpopular as the last time such change was tried in the UK and, more recently, in Portugal, and would inevitably be reversed.'.