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The British government’s so-called money transfers prop up its poorer regions, keeping them from the kind of collapse suffered in euro zone nations like Greece.

In its official response to an independent copyright study, the British government has pledged to create new fair-use-style copyright exceptions, approve some private copying, enact orphan work reforms, and drop a controversial Internet filtering scheme.

The British government intends to force banks to insulate their retail operations from their more volatile investment banking, a Treasury source confirmed Wednesday.

The British Government's decision to throw £30 million on getting everybody online is of course laudable in its way.

The idea is to save a lot of money - and as the last European country still in recession goodness knows we could do with it - by taking Government services online, and to do that you need to make sure everyone is pretty much digitally enfranchised.

The recession's toll on British government finances was highlighted Friday by official figures showing the government borrowed a record 16.1 billion pounds ($26.3 billion) in August, just days after Prime Minister Gordon Brown conceded that whoever wins the next election will have to take an axe to spending.

The British government is taking legal action to bar four investors involved in the collapse of automaker MG Rover from any company management positions, a senior official said Friday.

The British government made a proposal that could require Internet providers to suspend unrepentant pirates’ accounts.

Lloyds Banking Group PLC, part owned by the British government after a bailout, on Wednesday reported a loss of 3.1 billion pounds ($5.3 billion) for the first half of the year as bad loans rose at HBOS, the bank it took over in January.

Trying to avoid taking British government bailout money, the bank is testing the market with buildings in London, Paris and New York.

The British government’s minority stake in the Royal Bank of Scotland has ballooned to 68 percent.