	u k money market given further mln stg help the bank of england said it provided the market with a further mln stg assistance this afternoon bringing its total assistance on the day to mln stg shortly before the bank said it had revised its estimate of the shortage up to mln stg from the earlier forecast of mln during the afternoon the bank bought mln stg of band two bank bills at pct and two mln stg of local authority bills plus mln stg of bank bills in band four at pct these rates were in all cases unchanged from previous intervention levels reuter 
