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02/06/2012 01:15 PM

Bristol set to launch own currency on May 21

BRISTOL - Hundreds of traders and business establishments have signed up for Bristol's own currency to be launched May 21, with the backing of the Bristol Credit Union, a bank run as a cooperative.

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02/06/2012 11:21 PM

Web craze's toy story

Bin Weevils, the online game and children's website, is launching a range of toys and merchandising, after signing a multi-year licensing deal with the toy manufacturer Character ...

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02/06/2012 11:21 PM

Britons rule in the album charts

Adele is at the forefront of a new British revival in the album charts with home-grown artists recording their best sales since the mid-1990s when Oasis and the Spice Girls ...

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02/06/2012 11:20 PM

Vodafone moves nearer Indian IPO

The mobile phone giant Vodafone has taken a major step towards a possible 10bn stock market float for its Vodafone India subsidiary, VIL, as former co-owner Essar completed its exit from the ...

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02/06/2012 11:20 PM

EFG-Hermes CEO stopped at airport over riot

The chief executive of the London-listed Arab investment bank EFG-Hermes has been prevented from leaving Egypt amid allegations that he could have helped to incite the football riot which killed 74 ...

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02/06/2012 11:20 PM

Wholesale gas prices rocket as Europe is hit by big freeze

Plunging temperatures and a supply squeeze sent UK wholesale gas prices soaring to their highest level in nearly six years yesterday, as Europe shivered in the grip of the big ...

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02/06/2012 11:20 PM

S&N pays $22m to settle Greek bribery case

Smith & Nephew, the FTSE 100 maker of artificial hips and knees, funnelled 6m through shell companies in the UK to pay bribes to Greek doctors over more than a decade, it was revealed last ...

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02/06/2012 11:20 PM

January hangover signals yet another tough year for high street

Retailers suffered a fall in underlying sales last month and the second-worst January of trading since the mid-1990s, hitting them with a "sobering" start to what is expected to be another ...

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02/06/2012 11:20 PM

BT in protest at price cuts

BT has said it disagrees with price cuts ordered by the telecoms regulator yesterday. Ofcom said BT should cut the price it charges rivals to use a broadband line by about 4.5 per cent to increase ...

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02/06/2012 11:20 PM

Big business just doesn't understand it has a problem over bosses' pay

Is Britain anti-business? That is a view that is being loudly expressed in corporate circles as the debate over executive pay rages. The City and the wider business community feels unloved and this ...

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vkram : UK Business News

Bristol set to launch own currency on May 21

Web craze's toy story

Britons rule in the album charts

Vodafone moves nearer Indian IPO

EFG-Hermes CEO stopped at airport over riot

Wholesale gas prices rocket as Europe is hit by big freeze

S&N pays $22m to settle Greek bribery case

January hangover signals yet another tough year for high street

BT in protest at price cuts

Big business just doesn't understand it has a problem over bosses' pay