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23/07/2012

Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from Westminster, where the trade minister Lord Green is under pressure over his time as chairman of the HSBC bank.

Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from Westminster, where the Trade Minister Lord Green is under pressure over his time as chairman of the HSBC bank.

A US Senate committee says "suspicious" funds from countries including Mexico and Syria passed through the bank during Lord Green's time there. But the Leader of the Lords, Lord Strathclyde, says the Government has "every confidence" in him.

Ministers are accused of "dither and delay" over their plans for the future of air travel in the UK.

Peers discuss how to mark the bicentenary of the birth of the Scottish explorer, David Livingstone.

And Bradley Wiggins's Tour de France victory is praised by a Government Minister to cross-party approval.

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