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Regulators secured the support of two key Independent WAS ‘GREETED WITH DISMAY’ BY OBESITY SPECIALISTS said the data showed banks’ total holdings MPs which enable her to form a working Gov- of that debt as of March 31st. At the time, ernment with a majority of 2 over the opposi- In an interview with in Britain. anything go wrong,” and doctors who just worries about the Banks’ government-debt tion party. Jenni Murray and he adds. don’t have the spe- “The only potential holdings were fanning fears about the health All positive news for the currency going for- Vanessa Feltz broad- cialist knowledge advantage of health of Europe’s banking system as a whole. Re- ward. Also this morning, the Reserve Bank cast on BBC Radio and training to deal tourism is that, on the lease of the bank data was considered the of Australia announced unchanged rates 4’s Woman’s Hour, “10 to 15% of gastric with them. face of it, surgery in main benefi t of the stress tests, which were for the Aussie Dollar, but signalled that it is a senior bariatric band patients will Europe would appear widely criticized as being lenient overall, but maintaining its tightening bias. Sterling has (weight loss) surgeon eventually run into to be a bit cheaper. taken as showing that the exposures were picked up this morning following its ‘across described how Feltz’s problems that will “By the time you However, once the not as widespread and extreme as had been the board’ dip yesterday. Rumour had it that decision to have her require further cor- factor in aftercare cost of proper after- feared. According to an article in today’s Wall the currency’s fall was on the back of a UK gastric band surgery rective surgery. You payments, for less care is added in, the Street Journal, “An examination of the banks’ Clearer buying Euro/Sterling as part of the overseas was greet- need a team that is than £1000 patients difference between disclosures indicates that some banks didn’t Government’s requirement to fund the Eu- ed with utter dismay willing to be there for could get weight loss Europe and the UK provide as comprehensive a picture of ropean Agricultural Budget. This caused the by obesity special- you 24/7 in the event surgery carried out often amounts to their government-debt holdings as regula- rate to rise up through the 100 day moving ists. of an emergency, not at some of the best just a few hundred just fl ying in and out centres in the UK by tors claimed. Some banks excluded certain average thus cementing the move in thin Mr David Kerrigan, pounds. of the country every highly experienced bonds, and many reduced the sums to ac- market trading. Today however, the currency who advised the gov- “What really worries couple of weeks,” he surgeons offering count for “short” positions they held—facts bounced back assisted by the fall in the Euro ernment on the NICE me is that people said. years of free unlim- that neither regulators nor most banks dis- but more on strong retail sales data from the obesity guidelines closed when the test results were published who opt for cut price “Sometimes com- ited follow-up close British Retail Consortium which showed a used today, said ‘a surgery overseas are to home at a medi- in late July”. rise in sales volumes compared to the same collective groan’ plications, such as often unaware of just band slippage or cal clinic staffed 24 Asian markets, starved of news or data input month last year. Talk of the demise of the UK went up among the how important medi- hours a day.” following the US/Canadian Bank Holiday, Consumer seems greatly exaggerated. UK’s leading bariatric erosion, can set in cally supervised af- seized upon this article and dumped the Today there is a raft of economic data global- clinics after Vanessa months - or even Other celebrities tercare is” he says. Euro - especially versus the Yen - on fears ly but little of market importance other than Feltz revealed that years - after the op- who have travelled “They rarely receive that Eurozone Governments and Financial In- German factory orders.