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      <title>Bonuses set to plunge 70% </title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The bonus culture is over and City workers can expect next year's payment to be down 70 per cent from their peak, according to analysts, prompting further losses in demand for the property market.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:52:54 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Bail out 'should save mortgage market'</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The government's £500 billion bailout package should help the mortgage market recover stability.
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:01:08 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Bank of England cuts interest rates by 0.5% </title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Gordon Brown announced to the House of Commons at midday the Bank of England is cutting interest rates by half a percentage point, as the world's central banks lower the cost of borrowing. 

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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:58:45 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Brown: &quot;Radical&quot; &#163;50bn bank bail out</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling have put forward their plans to fix the credit markets seeing the taxpayer becoming shareholders of the major banks. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:56:09 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Subprime borrowers try to improve credit ratings</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The banking crisis may have finally shocked Brits out of their financial apathy, with one in five sub-prime borrowers now trying to improve their credit records. 
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      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:34:41 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Start mortgage search 6 months early </title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Homeowners looking to remortgage are being urged to seek out a new deal six months before the current rate expires. 
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      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:32:48 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Mortgage crunch: Deals still out there</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The last week has seen the number of mortgages on the market contract by ten per cent, but this is not a disaster for those remortgaging and home buyers. 
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      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:47:41 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Buy-to-let mortgages disappear </title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The nationalisation of Bradford & Bingley has sparked a withdrawal of buy-to-let deals from the market, leaving landlords without finance. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:44:45 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Mortgage crunch becomes mortgage desert </title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The fall of Bradford & Bingley and the second wave of the credit crunch have caused mortgage deals to fall off the market. 
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      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:42:47 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Bradford &amp; Bingley mortgages nationalised</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Bradford & Bingley's (B&B) mortgages are to be nationalised while the bank's savings business will be taken over by Abbey-owner Santander after the bank was deemed to be a failure. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:57:02 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Mortgage approvals hit new record low </title>
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      <description><![CDATA[UK mortgage approvals hit a record low in August as the housing market slumps further. 
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      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:54:50 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Lenders up fixed-rate mortgage rates</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[High street lenders have increased their mortgage rates as the global financial crisis up the cost of borrowing. 

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      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:50:36 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>GE Money fined &#163;1.1m </title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mortgage lender GE Money Home Lending has been fined £1.12 million for causing 684 borrowers to lose £2.3 million. 

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      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:47:49 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>B&amp;B cuts 370 jobs </title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Bradford & Bingley has slashed 370 jobs with more staff cuts ahead as the bank reduces its mortgage operations. 

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      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:45:39 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Lenders up fixed-rate mortgage costs</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[High street lenders have increased their mortgage rates as the global financial crisis up the cost of borrowing.

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      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:00:10 +0100</pubDate>
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