Odds shorten for longer evenings as MPs prepare for crucial vote

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Ladbrokes makes it odds on that clocks will be changed by 2015

The campaign to move the UK's clocks forward by one hour, slashing national carbon emissions in the process, could take a major step forward today with the latest parliamentary vote on the proposed Daylight...

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