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    <description>From Britons holidaying at home this year and getting their kicks instead by splashing out on swish new tellies to householders looking to tart up their fallen-value homes, Argos and Homebase have had a good recession</description>
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    <description>Could car dealers be on the road to recovery?</description>
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    <title>Bidders make beeline for Churchill</title>
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    <description>Suitors are queuing up for a slice of Churchill Mining</description>
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    <description>Leading shares on the climb as growing confidence in the economy is being matched by the enthusiasm from brokers anxious to talk the stock market higher</description>
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    <description>The flow of good news from the High Street continued today, with upbeat numbers from the Home Retail Group and electricals firm Kesa, which owns Comet</description>
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    <description>Are you talking to me or chewing a brick?” That was almost certainly the first time I came across a rhetorical question in the flesh. Of course, my fine education had already taught me what such a literary device was in theory</description>
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    <description>The Bay Area’s Maker culture, which I wrote about a few months back, had its fourth big annual outing last weekend when some 80,000 people attended the two-day Maker Faire in San Mateo, at the Valley’s northern edge</description>
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    <description>A series of eyebrow-raising expenses claims by unnamed MPs are revealed today. They include claims for carrier bags, sweets and kitchen accessories - and even pet food and horse manure</description>
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    <description>How do you run a consumer-facing business in the teeth of a recession? With great difficulty, says Home Retail Group boss Terry Duddy</description>
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    <description>PJ Harvey indulges in mewling, whining, little-girl-lost vocal exercises and Ida Sand is back to basics.</description>
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    <description>Shares in Home Retail Group were plunging toward new lows, off 16p at 188p, as the Argos and Homebase group admitted it would be doing a lot worse but for the demise of Woolworths and MFI</description>
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    <description>&lt;strong&gt;Retail: &lt;/strong&gt;Britain's biggest electrical retailer DSG International sank deeper into the mire as shoppers cut back spending on big-ticket items and wait to buy computers and TVs</description>
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    <description>&lt;strong&gt;Economy: &lt;/strong&gt; Britain has been hit by another 3000 job cuts. Merrill Lynch and its new owner Bank of America is axing 1900 jobs in London, while the Sheffield-based roofing materials group SIG shed 1000</description>
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    <title>Market report:: Footsie pain as US rescue plan for carmakers fails</title>
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    <description>Shares tanked in London after the bailout of the “Big Three” US car giants stalled</description>
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    <title>My harsh lesson on the rules of the road</title>
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    <description>Recently I found myself bitterly regretting a moment of madness in the summer. One hot Saturday I drove to Homebase to get electric fans for the children's bedrooms</description>
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    <description>There were fears for hundreds of jobs at Homebase after it emerged that cost-cutting at the struggling DIY chain will include widespread redundancies.</description>
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    <title>Home Retail Group braced for unhappy Christmas sales</title>
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    <description>&lt;B&gt;Retail: &lt;/b&gt;Home Retail Group is braced for the worst Christmas in years after revealing that trading in the past few weeks has been disastrous</description>
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    <title>Gordon finally has to use that R-word</title>
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    <description>Gordon Brown finally admitted that Britain is heading into recession as new figures showed sales on the high street are plunging</description>
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    <title>Bathrooms supplier Longmead collapses</title>
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    <description>&lt;strong&gt;Consumer: &lt;/strong&gt;The company that ranked as one of Britain's biggest suppliers of bathrooms and accessories has collapsed, the latest victim of the crisis in the property market</description>
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    <title>High Street  downturn catches up with Argos</title>
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    <description>Argos, the High Street catalogue retailer which had up to now bucked the trend of slower consumer spending, now admits it is no longer immune to the downturn</description>
    <dc:date>2008-09-11T08:10:04Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Market report: Caz says dig into miners in the wake of sell-off</title>
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    <description>A drop in the price of raw materials has meant mining companies have suffered their biggest monthly fall in 11 years during September and the third- biggest monthly fall on record</description>
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    <title>Claridge's conman is jailed for two years</title>
    <link>http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23525910-claridges-conman-is-jailed-for-two-years.do</link>
    <description>A man blew &amp;pound;140,000 he made from a simple scam involving stolen DIY goods on a 28-day stay at Claridge's</description>
    <dc:date>2008-08-04T15:13:55Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Chance to join white van men</title>
    <link>http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23515804-chance-to-join-white-van-men.do</link>
    <description>Motorists are being encouraged to become "white van men"  -  after a leading car club unveiled plans to put VW Transporters at 150 new sites across the capital</description>
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    <title>Homebase hit by high street slump</title>
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    <description>The hardware superstore is suffering as Homebase show a worse-than-predicted sales slump</description>
    <dc:date>2008-06-12T11:47:31Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Five to try: Life in the raw</title>
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    <description>Raw food is on a roll but it doesn't have to mean vegan. Here are five of the best restaurants for non-cooked meals.</description>
    <dc:date>2008-05-14T11:15:28Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Bad weather and slowdown shake Homebase owner</title>
    <link>http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23481369-bad-weather-and-slowdown-shake-homebase-owner.do</link>
    <description>Home Retail Group close to a profits warning after a shocking downturn at Homebase</description>
    <dc:date>2008-04-30T10:38:59Z</dc:date>
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    <title>I'm tightening my belt - and boy, do I feel great about it</title>
    <link>http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23478878-im-tightening-my-belt---and-boy-do-i-feel-great-about-it.do</link>
    <description>Rationing appears to have returned to north London. On Sunday my lunch guests swapped tips on which supermarket sold the cheapest loaf and where to snap up wartime cuts of meat. These well-heeled professionals are quite able to weather an economic storm without feeling the pinch. Yet contingency plans were afoot. You'd think we were facing full-on famine when it's just the price of basmati rice that's going up</description>
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    <title>Thrilling grilling, the Iranian way</title>
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