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Brown plans National Investment Bank

The Government is to create a new National Investment Bank for the UK.

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Labour heads to North West

The Labour Party has announced that its annual conference will be held in Manchester in 2010, 2012 and 2014.

It will be held in Liverpool in 2011.

Manchester has already hosted the event in 2006 and 2008 and the Conservative Party is coming to the city this year for the first time.

The Labour gatherings are expected to be worth £70million to the regional economy.

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Workers fear for their jobs

Around 50 per cent of the workforce fear losing their jobs over the next year, according to a new opinion poll. which showed the Conservatives extending their lead over the Labour Party.

Forty-nine percent of full-time workers were concerned about being thrown out of work, up from 43 percent in October, the poll by Ipsos MORI poll found.

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