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Mortgage News

  • Shapps calls housing target a con
    Thur, 20 Nov 2008 12:44:23 GMT
    Grant Shapps, shadow minister of housing, has called Gordon Brown's pledge to build 3 million homes by 2020 a con.

BBC Business News

  • Banks 'must kick-start lending'
    Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:36:25 GMT
    Banks must start lending again to households and businesses, or face being named and shamed, the Treasury Select Committee chairman says.
  • Fullers upbeat amid downturn
    Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:55:05 GMT
    Fuller, Smith Turner says it is confident it will "cope well" even though the UK economic outlook did "not look good".
  • Singapore officially in recession
    Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:35:18 GMT
    Singapore downgrades its economic growth figure, which confirms it was Asia's first country in recession in the current financial crisis.
  • Aid request
    Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:40:40 GMT
    The CBI wants the chancellor to help small firms

BBC News

  • Pc faces quiz on alleged BNP link
    Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:48:15 GMT
    A police officer suspended after his name appeared on a list of BNP members is to be questioned by his bosses.
  • China names 19,000 May quake dead
    Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:34:50 GMT
    Chinese authorities name more than 19,000 people killed in a big quake in May, but deny reports they were all students.
  • Welfare plan 'may cause poverty'
    Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:33:43 GMT
    Ministers should rethink plans to force lone parents, disabled people and long term jobless to seek work, a government adviser says.

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