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		<title>UK Government to encourage investment in small businesses</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business Secretary Peter Mandelson is expected to announce on Wednesday the UK Government&#8217;s intention to launch a £150 million pound investment programme aimed towards small manufacturing companies specializing in areas where high levels of production and engineering skills are emphasized. 
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		<title>Darling to apply pressure on banks to reduce lending rates for small businesses</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Expressing his fears that interest rates being charged to small businesses may be too high, Chancellor Alistair Darling is set to meet with top management of the major UK banks poste haste to discuss how much they charge small firms for loans. 
Apparently information has reached Darling that the cost of loans seemed to have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Darling&#8217;s budget passes over small businesses</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most people who had the courage to listen to Chancellor Alasdair Darling&#8217;s budget speech yesterday were left shocked but not particularly surprised by its content. One group who were left speechless however was the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) who complained that the budget had largely ignored the small businesses. Businesses that are predicted to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Banks pledge to help small businesses</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Banks have promised to try and make life easier for small businesses by agreeing a ‘statement of principles’ brokered by Business Secretary Peter Mandelson.
Businesses say they are having problems arranging loans and overdrafts despite the billions of pounds the government has injected in to the economy as banks have screwed down lending criteria.
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		<title>Worrying signs of business distress increasing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Small businesses are the work horses of any economy. They might not be big, but there sure are a lot of them&#8230;and they are almost all struggling. Not only are the credit conditions proving more than a handful for even the best prepared small business people, but the markets at home and abroad are struggling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small businesses are next&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How will small businesses make their payrolls if the credit crunch persists? This is the nightmare scenario facing many small businesses. The standard response you get from small business people is that &#8220;we always make our payroll, even if we don&#8217;t pay our suppliers&#8221;. The trouble with this thinking at a time like this is [...]]]></description>
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