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		<title>Banks miss lending targets to SMEs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UK's banks missed targets for lending to smaller businesses in 2011 by more than £1 billion, according to new figures.]]></description>
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		<title>450 jobs face axe in Comet review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Struggling electricals chain Comet is poised to cut 450 jobs in a drive for the "significant savings" needed to safeguard its future.]]></description>
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		<title>Muller drops £20m adverts after TV flop</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dairy giant Müller has axed its biggest ever advertising campaign – just four months after it was launched in a blaze of prime-time publicity.]]></description>
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		<title>Bank CEO Diamond &#8216;proud&#8217; of lending</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barclays boss Bob Diamond hailed the bank's UK lending record as he claimed: "We really got on our horses to get businesses going."]]></description>
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		<title>Greek default fears send FTSE down</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:40:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barclays shares have advanced despite a profits fall but world markets slid after an agreement on crucial austerity measures in Greece fell apart.]]></description>
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		<title>Flybe reveals revenues pressure</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Airline Flybe has posted flat revenues in the UK as it highlighted the tricky conditions that caused its shares to hit turbulence last month.]]></description>
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		<title>Miliband plans tax on bank bonuses</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Getting young people into work using a tax on bankers' bonuses is a major priority for Labour, leader Ed Miliband has said at the launch of the party's local election campaign.]]></description>
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		<title>Farming Talk: Dairy Event has been through so many changes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even after my very best attempts at persuasion, the taxi driver who dropped me at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham towards the end of last year remained totally unconvinced that nearly 200 dairy animals, including milking cows, could be found within those exhibition halls.]]></description>
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		<title>Ministers quit in Greek cuts row</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greece's future in the euro grew increasingly precarious as violence erupted on the streets of Athens during a general strike and five politicians resigned from the government after European leaders demanded deeper spending cuts.]]></description>
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		<title>Failed bank sues for 2.5bn dollars</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lehman Brothers Holdings is suing several units of Citigroup to recover 2.5 billion US dollars it transferred to a back-up account at Citi months before seeking bankruptcy court protection.]]></description>
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		<title>Stocks drop over Greece uncertainty</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Asian stock markets dropped today after Europe's finance ministers demanded more spending cuts from Greece before clearing a 130 billion euro bailout to stave off the country's bankruptcy.]]></description>
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		<title>Barclays sparks anger over bonuses</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barclays was accused of ignoring anger over bonuses and running "business as usual" as it revealed a £1.5 billion pot for investment bankers.]]></description>
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		<title>Beer duty &#8216;will cost 16,000 jobs&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thousands of jobs will be lost unless the Government halts plans for a "punitive" tax rise on beer, industry leaders have warned.]]></description>
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		<title>US stocks higher after Greece deal</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The stock market finally got a deal in Greece, but it did not produce much of a rally.]]></description>
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		<title>Developer gets out-of-town boost</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the UK's biggest property firms said occupancy and footfall at its out-of-town shopping centres continued to improve amid evidence shoppers are deserting high streets.]]></description>
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		<title>Surprise rise in factory output</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A surprise jump in factory output has boosted hopes of a trading revival within Britain's under-pressure manufacturing sector.]]></description>
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		<title>Bingo resurgence boosts Rank Group</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The owner of Mecca Bingo has said it is attracting more and younger customers after reporting a surge in profits and sales in the final six months of last year.]]></description>
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		<title>Jobs go as Ricoh opens redundancy scheme</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of Shropshire’s biggest employers today announced plans to axe jobs and freeze wages as part of a major cost-cutting drive.]]></description>
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		<title>Pub landlords warned of tough times</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UK's biggest pub landlord has warned its publicans to be braced for a tough year ahead as costs increase and consumers face further economic uncertainty.]]></description>
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		<title>Greek agreement boosts FTSE figures</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[London's leading shares index has crept higher after Greece took an important step towards avoiding a default and the Bank of England said it would pump £50 billion into the economy.]]></description>
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