Union-backed tribunal cases have a higher success rate
Trade union membership has its privileges, according to yesterday's TUC report, Focus on Employment Tribunal, Trends survey. Trade union-backed cases have a higher succes...
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Councils can tax second homes at full rate
Town halls will be able to levy the full council tax rate on second homes under a five point plan unveiled by John Prescott to transform the countryside with more afforda...
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Leeds run the risk and raise the exchange rate
Asked in Turin 10 days ago to nominate the member of Peter Taylor's England team of tenderfeet most likely to break the British transfer record it is doubtful whether Rio...
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After the storms, the rate rises...
The 3,000 homes hit by flooding during this autumn's severe weather represent a tiny proportion of the number of properties threatened by flooding in the coming decades, ...
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Head salutes 100% exam success rate
Kevin Satchwell, headteacher of Thomas Telford school in Shropshire, yesterday declared himself the luckiest head in the country after his school became the first compreh...
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Small businesses offered flat-rate
The smallest businesses will be able to calculate their VAT in a new way, which tax experts say should free up the administrative burden they face.
Under a package of m...
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How do others rate your looks? Click to find out
Dare you expose yourself to the ultimate truth?
It is horrible, strangely addictive and a phenomenal success. The insecure need not apply.
'Am I hot or not' is the l...
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Hotspots fuel capital's soaring murder rate
The boroughs of Havering, Bexley and Redbridge may not be the most sought after areas of London, but in one respect, at least, places with unfashionable postcodes have a ...
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Second rate
The best thing about the world transfer record being smashed to smithereens, apart from the sheer sanity of being able to read about football again and stop having to pre...
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Death rate nearly double for night births, researchers say
Babies born at night are almost twice as likely to die as those born in the daytime, researchers say.
A study of 380,000 "low risk" babies born in hospitals in the Germ...
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