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Amazon gets set for cyber Monday

Internet retailers are preparing for a deluge of online orders on their busiest day of the year in the lead-up to Christmas In a vast warehouse, the size of eight football pitches and around 15 minutes from the centre of Milton...

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Lender criticised

Barry Richardson said it was hard not being able to afford presents "If you're unemployed and you've got no money coming in it's hard," said Barry Richardson, who has lived his whole life in Coventry's Wood End estate. Many of...

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Abandoned brides

Indian brides' families still pay dowries of up to £20,000 to some British men Thousands of new brides in India are being abandoned by their British Asian husbands after they are married. Despite this, there is evidence to...

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CBI hails 'new era for business' after the recession

Richard Lambert director general of the CBI has called for the creation of a new breed of institution to finance smaller businesses after a survey by the lobby group found that credit is still hard to secure.

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National Express fundraising will test shareholder democracy

The future of National Express could be decided this week by short-selling hedge funds and the banks that have lent them 18 per cent of its stock, in what will be seen as a key test for shareholder democracy.

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Seoul shares seen rangebound;eyes on foreign buying

SEOUL, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Seoul shares may be rangebound on Monday with recently renewed foreign buying likely to continue amid brewing hopes for solid fourth quarter earnings, but modest losses on Wall Street are set to weigh...

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UPDATE 2-Smash 'Twilight' sequel enters record books

LOS ANGELES, Nov 22 (Reuters) - The "Twilight" sequel scored the third-biggest opening weekend of all time at the North American box office on Sunday, as millions of young women swooned over the complex love triangle involving...

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Elephants rampage in eastern India

Nov 22 - A herd of elephants goes on a rampage, destroying a tea garden in Doars region of India's eastern West Bengal state. When tea leaf pluckers arrived at work, they found the big herd of the jumbos plundering the whole...

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Raining cats and dogs: a scene from the life of an English teacher in France

It's not about money, exams or ticking boxes. Our narrator teaches English, mainly to elderly French men and women, for pleasure. I went into the office and said hello, in English, to Frédéric and Sandrine, the admin staff....

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Opposition poll protest ends in Albania

Albania's Socialist opposition yesterday ended a three-day protest in central Tirana by pledging to stay out of parliament until the government agrees to a partial recount of ballots cast in a closely contested general election...

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