01-Feb-2013 12:23 UK

'Concern' over first-time buyers :: A lack of first-time house buyers in the UK is a "cause for concern", the Nationwide says as it reports that prices in January were unchanged from a year earlier.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21268850#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Russian waves in UK real estate :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/hIiYYQb5EOA/

Monti: UK will stay in EU :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/0No5b6gyjhY/index.html

British industrial policy remains plagued by the antidote fallacy :: Policy failures are attributed to incomplete revolution leading to an antidote response. Here is a better way to boost industryNot so long ago, the UK's political classes used to rubbish industrial policy as "picking winners". But these days, things have changed. As Ha Joon Chang, an economist at the University of Cambridge recently observed, with Vince Cable in the lead and the TUC and CBI in the chorus, our policy wonks and politicians are all industrial activists now.But if we are witnessing a change of faith, it's a conversion that rests on the antidote fallacy. Since 1945, the syllogism which justifies every major British policy regime change is that if strategy (a) is a dismal failure, then the opposite strategy (b) will deliver policy objectives. The definition of strategy (b) is al...
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UK factory activity edges higher :: Activity in the UK's manufacturing sector edged higher in January despite falling export orders, a monthly survey suggests.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21291974#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Barnier urges UK to keep faith with EU :: In a speech to finance executives in London, Michel Barnier, EU internal market commissioner, stressed UK needs to be part of Europe to compete
url: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0233d4c8-6c5a-11e2-b774-00144feab49a.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fhome_europe%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct

VIDEO: Why is the FTSE 100 important? :: The FTSE 100 is the index of the UK's largest 100 countries, and is a key indicator often referred to by financial experts..
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21292147#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Rival airports fight UK for passengers :: Could UK airports lose out to international rivals?
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21275784#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

AUDIO: Why are UK pubs in decline? :: Today reporter Andrew Hosken investigates news that the UK is losing 18 pubs a week, and increasingly some are ending up as supermarkets.
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UK Won't Help British Woman Facing Death Penalty In Indonesia For Drug Smuggling :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A British woman, sentenced to death in Indonesia on charges of smuggling cocaine, Thursday lost a High Court bid challenging the UK government's refusal to fund a lawyer for an appeal against her sentence.</p>
<p>Lindsay Sandiford, 56, was sentenced Jan. 22 after she was found guilty of smuggling 4.8 kg (10.6 lb) of cocaine to Bali.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/uk-wont-help-british-woman-facing-death-penalty-indonesia-drug-smuggling-1054618