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(FILES) In this file picture taken on March 13, 2012 British entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson leans out of the window of the drivers cab on board a Virgin Pendolino train at Lime Street Station in Liverpool, north-west England, as he prepares to launch a Global Entrepreneurship Congress. Richard Branson’s Virgin Money is mulling a bid for 316 branches of the Royal Bank of Scotland, a source familiar with the matter said on October 14, 2012, after the collapse of a deal to sell them to Spanish giant Santander. AFP PHOTO/PAUL ELLIS (Photo credit should read PAUL ELLIS/AFP/GettyImages)