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RUMOURS had been rife among the civil servants in London for weeks: they were going to be relocated somewhere up north, to a place beginning with D, as part of the Government’s plans to boost the economy of provincial towns. When the news was confirmed, they didn’t learn about it through Twitter, as the Treasury officials learned on Wednesday from the Chancellor that their new “economic campus” was going to be in Darlington. It was brought to the civil servants of the pensions and salaries departments of the Department of Education and Science, based in Canons Park in north London, by their staff magazine.