Mayor Boris aims to unleash 'green business dragons' with £20,000 prize

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Students urged to put forward proposals for Dragons' Den-style green entrepreneur competition

Fresh from his latest 'greed is good' paean to Margaret Thatcher and Gordon Gekko, Mayor Boris Johnson will today launch a competition to encourage London students to come up with new green business ideas....

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