UK's super-rich 'getting richer' (BBC)

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The UK's super-rich have never been richer, according to this year's Sunday Times Rich List.

The top 1,000 richest people in the country now have more than £400bn between them, it estimates - up almost £53bn in the last year.

Forty of the top 75 are foreign. Indian steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal is top again with £27.7bn, up £8bn on 2007.

Times are harder for UK figures such as Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson, whose fortune dropped by £400m to £2.7bn.

Sir Richard has dropped nine places in the list, down from 11th in 2007 to 20th.
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