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Britain to Nationalize Struggling Mortgage Lender

The British government announced on Sunday that it will nationalize mortgage lender Northern Rock. The British government rejected two takeover proposals for the lender, which ran into trouble last year following the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States.

Northern Rock is the first bank to be nationalized in decades.

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