Many in Moore are beginning to face the fact that they lost photos and family heirlooms that cannot be replaced.

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In Europe, governments are slowly waking up to the challenges which face them, and realising how much time they have lost.

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But, if you take the employment and GDP figures at face value, Britain's companies have barely made up the productivity they lost in the recession, and are far from the path they would have been on if the pre-crisis trend had continued.

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