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01/07/2009 11:49 AM
UK car sales fall to 12-year-low
UK car sales in 2008 are 11.3% lower than they had been in 2007, following a 21.2% drop in December.


01/07/2009 11:48 AM
M&S to close stores and cut jobs
Marks and Spencer says it plans to close 25 Simply Food stores and two of its regular stores, and cut 1,230 jobs.


01/07/2009 11:20 AM
Warning for drivers after new low
Motorists were warned to take care on the roads after temperatures plunged to -12C (10.4F) overnight, on the coldest night so far of Britain's big freeze.


01/07/2009 10:46 AM
Brown urged to 'condemn' Israel
Gordon Brown must "unambiguously condemn" Israel's actions in Gaza, Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg says.


01/07/2009 10:33 AM
'Rude' English streets defended
Streets with names that could be considered rude are defended after a council revealed plans to vet new place-names to stop double entendres.