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Nationwide takeover is 'welcomed'

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The Dunfermline Building Society is the latest financial institution to ask for government help. Business editor Robert Peston gives details of the deal and chairman of the society Jim Faulds discusses why ministers have rejected the ideas to keeping the firm running in its current form.

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