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Frown In The South

ONE report tells us we must head south to London to prosper, another says people in Scotland are among the happiest in Europe. One of them must be wrong...

It seems the word's cash woes are about the rich not making as much and the middle classes tightening their belts.

Meanwhile, poor folk still suffer just as they have for the last 10 years.

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