Fred Goodwin stripped of knighthood

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain stripped the former head of Royal Bank of Scotland of his knighthood on Tuesday, putting a banker reviled by tabloids as "Fred the Shred" alongside Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe and Romania's Nicolae Ceausescu as those who lost the high honour.

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Source: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/01/31/uk-britain-rbs-knighthood-idUKTRE80U1ME20120131?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews

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