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Pawn shops booming in the credit crunch

Sector seeing increase in business as other forms of credit grow harder to get By Karen Hussein

WHILE much of the economy braces itself for hard times, the pawnbroking sector is booming, after the chief executive of the National Pawnbrokers Association said that 96% of its members had seen increased business in the past six months.