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Minister's computer stolen

A computer was stolen from the office of a British Cabinet minister in a break-in, an aide said yesterday, in the second serious security breach involving a senior government official in a week.

An aide at the Manchester constituency office for Hazel Blears, the Cabinet secretary for the Department of Communities and Local Government, said the computer was the only item taken in the weekend burglary. "The window was smashed. Just the computer was taken," she said.