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Millionaire David Duffield, the former computer software magnate, plans to revise blueprints to build a huge mansion after neighbours complained the hotel-sized home was out of character with the area.

Newly optimistic investors sent stocks sharply higher today, propelling the Dow Jones industrials 112 points higher as new economic data showed strength in manufacturing.