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B&B Shareholders to the rescue July 4th, 2008

Existing shareholders of Bradford & Bingley - Insight Investment, Legal & General, M&G and Standard Life - will purchase £400m worth of new shares following the withdrawal of Texas Pacific Groups (TPG) offer to buy 23% of the British Bank.

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Rolls-Royce to slash up to 2,000 jobs 21 Nov 2008 19:37, edition.cnn.com
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Woolworths' shares plunge 32 pct on concern it won't be able to sell debt-ridden business 21 Nov 2008 19:13, Hartford Courant
... downturn, lost 0.67 pence ($0.01) to close at 1.43 pence (about $0.02) on the London Stock Exchange. The fall came after a newspaper report that a syndicate of Woolworths' lenders led ...

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