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Stories for August 6th 2009

• Thursday, August 6th 2009 - 16:24 UTC

  EU urges UK and Spain to solve Gibraltar waters’ row

  

  European Commissioner Stavros Dimas has been urging UK and Spain to work “towards a mutually acceptable” resolution of the Gibraltar waters designation row it has emerged, reports the Gibraltar Chronicle.

• Thursday, August 6th 2009 - 16:17 UTC

  Soaring bad debts at Lloyds Banking Group but “worst is over”

  

  Lloyds Banking Group which has been partly nationalized by the British government blamed soaring bad debt charges of £13.4 billion on reckless lending at HBOS, but predicted the worst is over.

• Thursday, August 6th 2009 - 16:14 UTC

  China appeases peasants with partly subsidized new pension scheme

  

  The Chinese government is to introduce a new pension scheme for the country's hundreds of millions of rural workers. The minister for social security announced that a trial scheme would be extended across China by October.

• Thursday, August 6th 2009 - 16:09 UTC

  Hazardous waste illegally sent to Brazil returned to UK

  

  Brazil announced it was returning 1.500 tonnes of hazardous waste that arrived from Britain labelled as recyclable plastic. The Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources said 89 containers left for Felixstowe, UK from the port of Santos on board MSC Oriane.