Review of the year - July 2012

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Opening ceremony
Opening ceremony

Mike Egerton/PA Wire

As the Golden Summer of 2012 kicked off, things weren't looking all that rosy. There were two banking scandals hitting the headlines, the recession was shocking us all as growth continued to dip, crime was soaring, costs were rising and we were all fairly convinced that the Olympics had proved to be an outlandishly expensive mistake.

And that wasn't all we had to worry about...
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