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		<title>Cameron gets to number ten.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 10:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
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Leader of the Conservative party David Cameron was finally accepted as the UK Prime Minister late on Tuesday after his party and the Liberal Democrats (the Lib-Dems) agreed on a five-year deal to form the UK&#8217;s first coalition government since the Second World War, on the promise of forming a &#8220;strong and stable government&#8221;. Lib-Dem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Radical overhaul of state pension called for.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 15:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
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The National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) have called for a radical overhaul of the state pension system.
The NAPF, a leading pension&#8217;s body wants the next government to introduce a new &#8216;Foundation Pension&#8217; that would combine the Basic State Pension and the Second State Pension and would entitle all Britons to a state retirement pot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OFT loses out to the banks on overdraft charges</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
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The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has lost its legal battle over bank charges with banks following the shock announcement by the Supreme Court on Wednesday. While the ruling effectively scuppers any chance of reclaiming fees in the foreseeable future it does clear the way for new rules to be drawn up that would limit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Power bill scam slammed.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:42:26 +0000</pubDate>
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Controversial new rules that allows suppliers to increase their tariffs without the need to advise consumers for a period of up to 65 days has been slammed by a leading consumer group. 
This power bill scam has been highlighted by the consumer protection group, Which who have been calling on the industry regulator Ofgem as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mandelson seeks to ban the Phoenix Four</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
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After an inquiry found they had taken unreasonably large rewards from the now bankrupt car maker MG Rover Group Ltd, UK Business Secretary Peter Mandelson is seeking a ban on the investors involved in the collapse from running other companies 
A recently released 800-page government-commissioned report into the demise of MG Rover, who went belly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chelsea Building Society victims of multi-million pound fraud</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
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Officers in charge of the Chelsea Building Society held their head in their hands on Friday as they sheepishly admitted that the society had fallen victims to &#163;41 million fraud by some of their buy-to-let borrowers.
The Chelsea, UKs fifth-largest building society, hastened to explain that if the fraud hadn&#8217;t taken place their half year loss [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Days of price fixing may be over as the Office of Fair Trading cracks down.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
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The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) get their way , in the very near future company directors who turn a blind eye to price fixing at their companies are liable to be banned for up to 15 years. According to a statement published by the OFT, Britain&#8217;s antitrust regulator are preparing considerably tougher penalties not [...]]]></description>
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