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Today's Scotsman reports that the Lord Mayor of the City of London, Alderman Gavyn Arthur, visited Edinburgh's financial institutions. He is calling for a cut in EU red-tape for Scottish financial institutions.

In the Birmingham Post , an accounting giant welcomed the Government's shake-up of the audit industry. Mark Hopton, senior partner at KPMG Birmingham, called the changes, "tough but necessary".

Meanwhile in the Yorkshire Post , a survey finds Yorkshire exporters are among the UK's top users of the euro. The survey also found support for the euro is higher in the region than the national average.

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