18.05.09 Confusion over scrappage plan (The Independent)
As the Government's £2,000 cash-for-old-bangers scheme launches today, in a bid to breathe life back into Britain's stalled motor industry, manufacturers and dealerships are split over which of them is expected to cover the car industry's share of the discount. One of the major manufacturers, Honda, almost pulled out, fearing that it would be economically unworkable.
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18.05.09 BNP's British builders are American (The Independent)
"British jobs for British workers," the BNP's advert demands. The problem is that the builders pictured are hardly home-grown: they hail from Oregon, on the far side of the United States.
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12.05.09 £11m divorcee reveals other family (The Independent)
The city tycoon hoping to reduce his £11m divorce settlement in the wake of the recession has confessed to harbouring a secret "common-law wife and child" in the same neighbourhood as his ex-wife.
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