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WE examine the disappointment surrounding the government's decision to site the new Green Investment Bank out of Yorkshire... we talk to the man now running Morrisons, and we hear from the inimitable Gyles Brandreth. Listen to informed debate in your weekly business programme from the Yorkshire Post.
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