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That mention of EPS takes me back, we used to use it all over the place to form basic hub-and-spoke networks in areas where we had lots of small sites that would all connect to a single exchange. It would generally bounce along at 2Mbps which wasn't bad in those days.

We also had some large campus type sites where we would sometimes implement EPS to do LAN extension over the onsite twisted pair as it was cheaper than installing fibre and just about fast enough.

Canary date palms (phoenix canariensis) can and do grow in southern England, although they don't fruit. Immature date palms need to be protected in winter, this is often achieved by bundling and tying the fronds together.

Spectacular photographs of a Canary Wharf skyscraper being completed have been rediscovered more than 30 years after they were taken.

Practically the UK must maintain an adequacy agreement with the European Commission so any changes would necessarily be constrained by that. Given that much of what became the GDPR was developed by British civil servants and in line with what the UK wanted to achieve at the time I suspect there is more than a little showboating going on here from HMG.