This may be small beer by American standards, but is scarcely what is expected of a declining industrial city in north-east Scotland.

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Perhaps this will be yet another French political scandal, albeit small beer compared with some previous pots de vin, destined to drag through the years as the judicial system bends this way and that to the pressures of politics.

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So, for the first time since 2008, the "big" issues in tomorrow's Budget will be politically explosive, but in economic terms, very small beer indeed.

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The man in the street tends to be deeply attached to his favourite pint, making beer an industry in which small local brands can continue to prosper.

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Such a move would be opposed by all wine, distilled spirits, and beer producers most vehemently by small production wineries and distillers, and the growing craft beer industry.

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That may sound like small beer for institutions with hundreds of billions in assets, but any extra expenses will be proportionately higher for hundreds of small and midsized banks.

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Now, as micro breweries have been able to establish themselves as successful small businesses, there are hopes that the beer, and the name Wrexham Lager, could be revived.

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