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  Minimum Wage will rise to £5.73.

Nearly one million low paid employees, two thirds of them women, will benefit from a raise in the National Minimum Wage.

Labour’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown has announced that the adult National Minimum Wage will rise from £5.52 to £5.73.

The rate for 18-21 year olds will also increase from £4.60 to £4.77, while the 16-17 year old rate will rise from £3.40 to £3.53.

Gordon Brown said: "Some people said the minimum wage would cost us two million jobs. We have a rising minimum wage and we have created three million jobs.''
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