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Finance Markets (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
Troubled buy-to-let mortgage lender Bradford & Bingley (B&B) has announced its mortgage processing centre in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, is be closed with the loss of 370 jobs. The processing centre is to close in the first quarter of 2009. B&B, which is the UK’s biggest buy-to-let lender, blamed the continuing downturn in the market for mortgages. The [...]
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Loans and Finance (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
Bradford and Bingley have announced that their mortgage processing centre in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, is to be closed and the 300 staff made redundant. It seems that it does not have a future as an independent business, its credit rating has now been cut to one notch above "junk". The Financial Services Authority is trying to find a buyer for the bank, in order to avoid another Northern Rock fiasco....
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The Amateur Economist & Curmudgeon (Free subscription) | 16/06/2008
A misc. items to check out. Also see the entire Guardian's Writers' Rooms series, and a little more here. Great use of lines and colors. CONTEMPORIST - New House in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://amateureconblog.blogspot.com/ for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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The Bitch Girls (Free subscription) | 15/03/2008
Honestly, if you start handing down punishment for disrespecting a camera, you are no longer a free society. Patrick Sheehan-Dinler, 29, was accused of giving a speed camera the finger on sixty-six occasions as he road through the town of Borehamwood in Hertfordshire over the course of two years. To conceal ...
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Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 18/09/2007
A BUSINESSMAN described as the UK "linchpin" of a multi-million-pound global conspiracy to sell fake medicines was yesterday jailed for four and half years. Ashish Halai, 31, of Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, was one of four men who smuggled copies of...
