Rumbles from the East
                   
eureferendum.blogspot.com     13-May-2008            

But because of damage to roads and other transport facilities, there could be shortages of food and consumer prices are now liable to rocket further. Construction material prices are also expected to soar.In a previous piece, however, the same paper points to more fundamental problems, with the... [read full story]                    


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guardian.co.uk     14 hrs ago          

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scotsman.com     2 hrs ago          

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telegraph.co.uk     3 hrs ago          

By Edmund Conway, Economics Editor Gordon Brown has left the public finances heading for a budget deficit almost as large as the one that triggered the 1970s International Monetary Fund bail-out, financiers have warned....                    

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Dalai Lama's brother dies in U.S

tiscali.co.uk     21 hrs ago   13 related          

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