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Allied Irish Banks have said that 7.7% of their mortgage customers were in arrears in April, up from 6.9% at the end of last year.
Chariman David Hodgkinson told the company's AGM that he expects arrears to stabilise at the end of this year.
Woolwich attack 'hard to prevent'
Preventing the killing of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich would have been "incredibly hard", MI6's former head of counter-terrorism says.
'Field of diamonds'
The stories behind Rome's gleaming cobblestones
The dogulator
Work out your dog's true age with this handy calculator
Slave pride
South African rapper determined to prove Afrikaans is "cool"
Le Shopping?
The English phrases readers love to hear spoken by the French
Winning business
Why trying to become a successful entrepreneur has never been more fashionable
Talking Movies
Tom Brook looks at Red Obsession, a film which charts China's thirst for red wine
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