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Wage packet with cash
Firms urge freeze on minimum wage
UK business leaders call for the national minimum wage to be left at the current levels in 2009 amid the downturn.
Minimum wage will rise to £5.73
Gloomy forecast for UK economy
Bank 'did not understand crisis'

Magdeline Makola Arrest over 'nurse in boot' case
A man is charged in connection with the abduction of a nurse found in the boot of her car after being missing for 11 days.

Adams Adams 'poised for administration'
UK childrenswear retailer Adams is the latest chain store to apply to go into administration, the BBC has learned.


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Brussels sprouts Christmas rejects
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Woolworths store closure posters In pictures
After 99 years, Woolworths starts closing down

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Arrest over pub bottle death
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MAGAZINE
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UK NEWSPAPERS
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ENGLAND
Injured paratrooper can keep job
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NORTHERN IRELAND
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Funeral of holiday tragedy child

SCOTLAND
Hunt resumes for man on night out
Call for 'Pilgrim Way' footpath

WALES
Two killed in two-car collision
'No easy economic cure' warning
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