Poor demand for new homes hits Berkeley
Upmarket property developer Berkeley yesterday blamed a near 12% fall in pre-tax profits on a slowdown in demand for new homes.
The London-based group, which has moved ...
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Time for a cut
The Bank of England ought to cut interest rates - currently 4.75% - by 0.25% when its monetary policy committee ends two days of deliberations tomorrow. The reason is sim...
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Cancer risk 'greater in deprived areas
The incidence and death rates from cancers linked to smoking or high alcohol consumption are three times higher in the most deprived areas of the UK than in the most affl...
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Prince's income exceeds ?13m
The Prince of Wales's private income rose by 11% last year to more than ?13m, according to figures published today in the annual review of his finances and official activ...
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Bumblebees know where to go
Honeybees have an elaborate language of dance to pass on news about the best places for nectar. Their more solitary cousins, the bumblebees, were always supposed to forag...
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Fees? Nein, danke
Last month students demonstrated yet again in Hamburg, telling all and sundry that "we are here, we are loud". It was one of several demonstrations in the city - and acro...
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Bankruptcies to rise, with retail and leisure hit hardest
Slower economic growth and higher interest rates have pushed up the number of business failures and will continue to do so throughout 2006, a leading business consultancy...
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Lloyds faces increasing customer debt
Lloyds TSB today reported an increase in the number of its high street customers having repayment difficulties.
However, the bank insisted it was on track for "satisfact...
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Monkeying around in Japan
The best way to travel around the Japanese alps is to hire a car in Tokyo itself or at the airport. Rates are reasonable, the roads are well signposted in English, and fu...
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Wealth tax hits poor pensioners of Paris
Bernadette thinks it is shameful. Never did the 76-year-old retired primary school teacher, who lives on a pension of €800 a month, think she would find herself clas...
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