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It might not be obvious, but higher prices have hit Hillsborough Street. Business, especially those that are locally owned, have faced the economic downturn -- which results in, among other effects, comparatively higher prices for goods and oil -- in either of two ways. Councils want power to offer competitive mortgages (Times Online)
Council chiefs have called for extra powers to allow them to offer competitive mortgages in an attempt to rescue the housing market. Get your 'gurt on at Portland's froyo parlors (The Oregonian)
While driving through Bulgaria's countryside years ago, I spied a village market. Sitting cross-legged on the ground were three elderly men with white walrus moustaches and an old woman dressed in black, stirring wooden pots of yogurt wrapped in burlap sacks.