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		<title>Osborne wakes up to difficult times ahead for UK economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 13:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
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In one of the classic understatements of the year so far, new finance minister George Osborne has just announced his findings that the British economy is in a dire state and there will be difficult times ahead. Osborne&#8217;s revelation came as the government sat down to take action on tackling the record budget deficit. Osborne [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mandelson argues that Labour should be allowed to stay in power despite losing the election.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 09:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tom</dc:creator>
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In the first statement coming out of Labour election headquarters, current U.K. Business Secretary Peter Mandelson has put up an argument stating that the sitting government has the constitutional right for the &#8220;first go&#8221; in trying to remain in power when no party wins a majority in the House of Commons.
&#8220;The rules are, if it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Its Lloyd and RBS out of the high street, and Richard Branson and PayPal in.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tom</dc:creator>
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The announcements that Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Lloyds Banking Group are to sell off hundreds of branches has added a smile to the face of. 
Alistair Darling as well as the European Commission, who had insisted that the banks sell off some of their branches. In a recent statement, the chancellor confirmed his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weak inflation to hit state pensions.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tom</dc:creator>
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Millions of members of the UK community of retirees are looking at the dim prospect of receiving a pension hike of less than ten pounds a month when the new rates kick-in in April 2010 The reason for the minimal increase is that UK inflation on which pension rises are calculated. Is considerably less than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s that &quot;I said it at the Brighton conference&quot; season again.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:54:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tom</dc:creator>
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Government ministers will use this week&#8217;s Labour party conference to claim government action helped pull the country back from the economic abyss, while their Tory counterparts will as surely use their own conference next week to blame the government for the downturn&#8217;s depth.
According to the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) employers&#8217; organisation, after the general [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interest rates set to fall to record low</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamie</dc:creator>
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History is in the making as for the first time ever, the Government and Bank of England all but control the UK banking sector.
Until now, the powers that be have set the Bank of England interest rate, but banks and building societies have had the option of whether to follow or not.
Tomorrow, Bank of England [...]]]></description>
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		<title>7 fat years and 7 lean</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:25:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During these most extraordinarily difficult of times, more and more people are turning to their local churches, synagogues and mosques for help and advice in getting through the problems that we all face to some degree. Religious institutions from all faiths are reporting an upsurge in the number of people asking for help and guidance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retiring? Better luck next time</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My heart really does go out to anyone who is about to retire at this time. What a horrible position they are in. Not only has the value of their investment pool lost about 40% of its value over the last year, if it’s been invested in equities, but interest rates are forecast to come [...]]]></description>
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