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Any ideas why its sluggish??

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Over the last few months, my MG has been really 'sluggish' pulling away once its been warmed up. If I drive from home to work, which is about 30 miles, then it pulls nicely and normally for the 5 minutes it takes me to get on to the motorway, then it has no problem on the motorway/main roads, but when I get into MK, where I work, it becomes very slow and generally feels like its having a hard time pulling away once I am on the stop/start roundabouts.

Obvious thing would be the air filter, I have an ITG maxogen and i've checked it over and it looks ok, the only other thing is that my cambelts are screaming, but I think that is the tensioner and doubt that would cause it?

any ideas?