Despot planned 'Save Britain Fund'
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Ugandan dictator Idi Amin planned to intervene to save the UK from financial ruin in the 1970s, archives show.
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Gordon Brown is urged by a think tank to create a new bank holiday to celebrate community heroes.
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Surge follows details of government's plan to convert Â£24bn of loans into bonds
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A multi-million pound scheme to attract tourists and jobs to the Heads of the Valleys is announced.
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Radical plans unveiled today will let voters decide how tens of millions of pounds should be spent in their neighbourhood.
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The Prime Minister confirms plans to match donations given to England's universities.
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The UK and other developed countries are meeting to plan ways to spend aid more effectively in poor countries.
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Egg and sperm donors could be paid thousands of pounds in expenses under plans being considered.
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Britain's finance minister Alistair Darling has asked Goldman Sachs to put together a financing package in a last-ditch bid to rescue the ailing bank Northern Rock.
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Britain's finance minister said on  Wednesday he was working on a set of measures which will allow  the government to launch emergency rescues if other banks run  into trouble similar to that experienced by Northern Rock.
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Business & money: Sovereign funds deny political motivations, as US deputy treasury chief calls for vigilance
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First minister forced to slow down spending plans but claims 'seismic shift' in political loyalties.
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Offer made at talks aimed at resolving election crisis which so far has cost 1,000 lives
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Â· Bill Clinton and Michelle Obama seek funds in UK Â· Expatriates are big source of campaign dollars
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Business & money: Â· Proposal would create Britain's biggest pub group Â· Other predators circling after finance debacle
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China Investment Corp., the nation's huge sovereign wealth fund seen as a tool to project Beijing's economic clout, was invited Friday by Britain's prime minister to set up its first overseas office.
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The nationalization of the once lucrative bank threatens the British Prime Minister's already tottering fortunes