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Jimmy Reid was only one of the key players in the shipbuilding struggle.

BP says the cost of its Gulf of Mexico oil spill has risen to $8bn - a rise of more than $2bn in the last month alone.

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Moving swiftly to wind up nationalised Anglo Irish Bank could cost 70 billion euros (58 billion pounds) or more and would not be in the taxpayers' interest, Prime Minister Brian Cowen said on Friday.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=Ubq7mq-_zis:wICOoIURE1g:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=Ubq7mq-_zis:wICOoIURE1g:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?i=Ubq7mq-_zis:wICOoIURE1g:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=Ubq7mq-_zis:wICOoIURE1g:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?i=Ubq7mq-_zis:wICOoIURE1g:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Reuters/UKBusinessNews/~4/Ubq7mq-_zis" height="1" width="1"/

US employers hired more workers than expected last month, in a rare bright spot of good news that boosted stock markets in the US and Europe.

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Euro zone retail sales increased for a third successive month in July, offering more signs that consumers are opening their wallets and boosting the chances of the economic recovery continuing.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=694ei_rrnG8:7X3A-gJgJdc:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=694ei_rrnG8:7X3A-gJgJdc:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?i=694ei_rrnG8:7X3A-gJgJdc:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=694ei_rrnG8:7X3A-gJgJdc:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?i=694ei_rrnG8:7X3A-gJgJdc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Reuters/UKBusinessNews/~4/694ei_rrnG8" height="1" width="1"/

LONDON (Reuters) - British service sector activity grew last month at its slowest pace since April 2009, with a marked fall in hiring as employers worried about an economic slowdown and public spending cuts, a survey showed on Friday.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=oy50bVa1tiw:yjGOJGa1iXI:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=oy50bVa1tiw:yjGOJGa1iXI:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?i=oy50bVa1tiw:yjGOJGa1iXI:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=oy50bVa1tiw:yjGOJGa1iXI:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?i=oy50bVa1tiw:yjGOJGa1iXI:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Reuters/UKBusinessNews/~4/oy50bVa1tiw" height="1" width="1"/

Researchers begin a three-year study to uncover the secrets of St Kilda's super-sized field mice.

LONDON (Reuters) - Banks have acknowledged they need to be more open about the size of their bonus pools and the methodology for paying star bankers after making progress in other areas of reforming pay structures.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=AQu7eVEMQuM:NhWkci_lxhU:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=AQu7eVEMQuM:NhWkci_lxhU:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?i=AQu7eVEMQuM:NhWkci_lxhU:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=AQu7eVEMQuM:NhWkci_lxhU:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?i=AQu7eVEMQuM:NhWkci_lxhU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Reuters/UKBusinessNews/~4/AQu7eVEMQuM" height="1" width="1"/

LONDON (Reuters) - HSBC Holdings , Europe's biggest bank, warned that Britain's big banks could move overseas if a government review decides that lenders should be broken up.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=u_xLNkQ2KYM:l64mrM6wwsU:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=u_xLNkQ2KYM:l64mrM6wwsU:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?i=u_xLNkQ2KYM:l64mrM6wwsU:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=u_xLNkQ2KYM:l64mrM6wwsU:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?i=u_xLNkQ2KYM:l64mrM6wwsU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Reuters/UKBusinessNews/~4/u_xLNkQ2KYM" height="1" width="1"/

LONDON (Reuters) - Metro Bank, Britain's first new high street retail bank in more than 100 years, said on Friday it was ahead of its own targets for new account openings at its flagship branch.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=M5PybHM8rNg:_HpO0VbAkP4:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=M5PybHM8rNg:_HpO0VbAkP4:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?i=M5PybHM8rNg:_HpO0VbAkP4:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=M5PybHM8rNg:_HpO0VbAkP4:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?i=M5PybHM8rNg:_HpO0VbAkP4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Reuters/UKBusinessNews/~4/M5PybHM8rNg" height="1" width="1"/

Service sector activity grows at slowest pace since last April, with a sharp fall in hiring as employers worry about a slowdown and spending cuts.

China offered a rare insight into its foreign exchange reserves with confirmation that the vast majority are held in dollars.

SEOUL (Reuters) - The head of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision urged emerging market economies on Friday to adopt news rules on bank capital even though they may feel they have sufficient regulatory arrangements in place.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=feOM_Ab2sgs:QFrcy0Z5_DQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=feOM_Ab2sgs:QFrcy0Z5_DQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?i=feOM_Ab2sgs:QFrcy0Z5_DQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=feOM_Ab2sgs:QFrcy0Z5_DQ:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?i=feOM_Ab2sgs:QFrcy0Z5_DQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Reuters/UKBusinessNews/~4/feOM_Ab2sgs" height="1" width="1"/

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