US state lifts execution rate with a death a week
A man who was convicted of killing an 18-year-old man and then cashing in his victim's life insurance policy was due to be put to death by lethal injection early today, t...
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Brown delivers election pledge with 10p rate
The Chancellor yesterday finally delivered on his election pledge to introduce a new 10p tax rate which will put money in the pockets of all taxpayers. And, in the closin...
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Why we lefties don't rate the euro
In his article on the line-up for and against the European single currency, Ian Aitken made one serious factual mistake (Weird bedfellows, March 4). I never appeared on a...
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Ferguson's star school and its savage rate of failure
May 12, 1993, was not a good day in the young life and career of Robbie Savage. It was not so much the car crash that left him in hospital for a week, but the bombshell t...
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Rate cut demand as economy stalls
A raft of new evidence showing the economy grinding to a halt led to calls yesterday for the Bank of England to make an emergency cut to the cost of borrowing to boost co...
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First Division that is not so second-rate
Wednesday morning's ?8-million arrival of Duncan Ferguson in Newcastle, just 12 miles down the road from Sunderland, will doubtless have had a few Sunderland fans grumbli...
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Summer bounce lifted high street sales, says CBI
Retail sales grew at their fastest pace for nearly two years in August as consumers took to the shops despite the rise in interest rates, the CBI said yesterday.
Further...
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Life is getting more interesting for savers
Savers have not had the most welcome news in the past few weeks, with most banks and building societies either delaying putting rates up following the Bank of England rat...
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Resurgent Germany overtakes Britain and US
The mainland European economy, buoyed by a resurgent Germany, is expanding at its fastest rate for six years, outstripping Britain and the US, fresh figures showed yester...
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Oil price and dollar plunge as American growth stalls
Oil prices plunged and the dollar fell sharply last night amid fears that the US economy is buckling under the weight of rising interest rates and the threefold increase ...
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