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BYGONES: Bracknell is not a sinking ship’ - response to 1989 article FOLLOWING a series of high-profile company redundancy notices a headline in the Bracknell News in 1989 announced: “Laugh? We almost moved to Bracknell. the town where elephants go to die.” This rather unfortunate strapline was followed up with the opening paragraph: “Bracknell, the land of winding roundabouts, spiralling house prices, soaring land costs and redundancies.” The misery of thousands of job losses at local electronics and engineering companies had featured in a special report in Computing magazine, revealing that many employers were leaving like “rats from a sinking ship.” But East Berkshire MP Andrew MacKay hit back at the doubters: “Bracknell is by no means a sinking ship, there are new companies moving in all the time, Nixdorf, Hewlett Packard, Oracle and Panasonic are all coming to town.”

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