Others regard Leeds, with its strong financial sector and service industries, as almost as alien as London.

ECONOMIST: The North-East

Fire chiefs also said the service was not "immune from the financial situation that is affecting the whole of the public sector".

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The service sector was revised down to 0.9% largely due to new information from the financial and business services.

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This change should make our valuation, forecast, and ratings services more useful as the sector and industry groupings will be more akin to similar designations found on Bloomberg and other financial data service providers.

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