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Letter: The secret's out

Published 3 June 2001

From Edward Hookway

Further to the announcement in Feedback
(5 May)
of a prominent sign directing
visitors to a “secret nuclear bunker” in Brentwood, Essex, I must report that
the situation is far more serious.

In a recent A-level French oral exam, candidates had to accurately divulge
the location of the same bunker to the representative of a group of tourists and
persuade them to visit it. Do we have foreign agents hidden inside our country’s
exam boards?

Southsea, Hampshire

Issue no. 2293 published 2 June 2001

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