Northern Rock shrinks lending book
LONDON (Reuters) - Northern Rock plans to cut 2,000 jobs and shrink its lending book by 50 billion pounds as it seeks to comply with European rules for its state rescue and repay billions of pounds of taxpayers' money.

 

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