Article: WHY.(Features)

Taxpayers of Britain yesterday learned they were the proud owners of George II's gilt throne, Ipswich Town FC's car park and Isaac Newton's apple tree.

Not to mention huge stockpiles of weapons, vast acreages of land and enough oil paintings to fill an art gallery.

In a stocktaking exercise, already nicknamed Domesday II, the nation's every asset, from the magnificent to the mundane, has been listed for the first time since William of Hastings sized up his ...

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