British people donated £23 million through the charities’ Disasters Emergency Committee to help the people of Haiti within six days of the earthquake there; the British government also gave £20 million.
British people donated £23 million through the charities’ Disasters Emergency Committee to help the people of Haiti within six days of the earthquake there; the British government also gave £20 million. Mr Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister, said in a speech: ‘The coming decade will provide the UK with more middle-class jobs than ever before.’ Cadbury agreed to an £11.5 billion takeover by Kraft; there were fears of job losses. Unemployment unexpectedly fell a smidgen in December to 2.45 million. The Consumer Price Index of inflation rose to 2.9 per cent in December from 1.9 per cent in November, and the Retail Price Index to 2.4
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