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‘Chuffed’: Darlington buzzes for new Treasury HQ – but will the mandarins move north? Colin Drury © Provided by The Independent When Darlington was announced this week as the location for the government’s new Treasury North campus, even the local newspaper – the great Northern Echo – appeared surprised. In a guide to the northeast market town for London-based civil servants suddenly facing the prospect of relocation, the paper attempted to list what the place was best known for. Railway heritage, Quakers and Vic Reeves were on its list before the sound of straws being clutched could perhaps be heard. “In 1939,” the article told any reading mandarins, “Darlington had the most cinema seats per head of population in the United Kingdom.”

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