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Britain was 'three hours from going bust' - Britain's financial system was just three hours away from collapse last year after a secret run on the banks, one of Gordon Brown's Ministers has revealed



Britain was 'three hours from going bust'  [01/25/2009 01:17 PM]
Britain's financial system was just three hours away from collapse last year after a secret run on the banks, one of Gordon Brown's Ministers has revealed
Anger over WH Smith 'rip-off'at hospitals  [01/25/2009 01:17 PM]
Market round-up: Another bank bailout  [01/25/2009 01:17 PM]
The week on the stock market:Shareholders in the UK's banks suffered yet more chaos following the unveiling of a second rescue package
Gas customers rue fixed-rate deals  [01/25/2009 01:17 PM]
Nearly one million British Gas customers are out of pocket after the energy giant announced a 10% cut in its general tariff
Thousands to go in new BT shake-out  [01/25/2009 01:17 PM]
Thousands more jobs are to go at BT - on top of the 10,000 previously announced - after the discovery of problems at one of its key divisions
FTSE 100 firms dwarfed by own pension funds  [01/25/2009 01:17 PM]
Bank bail-out dwarfs tax bills  [01/25/2009 01:17 PM]
UK could pay for eurozone crisis  [01/25/2009 01:17 PM]
Britain could be forced to chip in billions of pounds to rescue countries in economic crisis because of their membership of the euro
'Broadband for all' funding call  [01/25/2009 01:17 PM]
Britannia wants Co-op profit deal  [01/25/2009 01:17 PM]
Britannia Building Society is insisting on preferential terms for its members in the new 'super-mutual' deal with the Co-operative
Where will survive the recession best?  [01/25/2009 01:17 PM]
The UK economy has finally officially been declared in recession, but where in the country is best placed to deal with the slump?
Recession here for two years, Darling admits  [01/25/2009 01:17 PM]
Fears of a two-year recession crept closer today as Chancellor Alistair Darling admitted that the downturn would be even worse than expected
Middle classes join home counties dole queue  [01/25/2009 01:17 PM]
Dole queues have doubled in a year in 12 commuter areas as the recession bites in the South-east
Treasury 'hiding' true bailout cost, say MPs  [01/25/2009 01:17 PM]
Chancellor Alistair Darling should come clean over the true cost to the taxpayer of the Government's multi-billion-pound bank bail-out schemes, MPs said today
Tory donors profited on Barclays fall  [01/25/2009 01:17 PM]
Partners at a hedge fund which made about £12m betting on a fall in the Barclays share price have donated more than £300,000 to the Conservatives
Midas share tips: Admiral Group and H&T  [01/25/2009 01:17 PM]
A letter of shame from British Gas  [01/25/2009 01:17 PM]
Euro children want our cash  [01/25/2009 01:17 PM]