Test 1: convergence
Failed
The British economy has moved more closely in step with the eurozone over the past six years but is not yet ready to live with interest rates set by the European...
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Grave risk to humans from loss of species
The increasing rates of extinction of plants and animals worldwide must be slowed to avoid threatening human food supplies, sources of wood, medicine, energy and clean wa...
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Pound tumbles to six-year low
The pound tumbled last night to its lowest level since before Labour came to power six years ago, as the prospect of a cut in interest rates to boost the flagging economy...
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Fed warns of economic weakness
The Federal Reserve added to the Bank of England's interest rate dilemma last night when it left American borrowing costs on hold but warned that the world's biggest econ...
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Keep taking the tablets
Monetary policy - using changes in interest rates to influence economic growth - has been likened to taking aspirin. It is fine for most minor illness but no good when a ...
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Egg weighs into rivals over interest charges
Only a tiny percentage of people who apply for credit cards and loans obtain the rates advertised, according to Egg, which this week launched an extraordinary attack on i...
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Getting your 10 per cent
As shares look shakier than ever, many people are opting for income-based Isas rather than equity growth funds - hoping the cushion of a regular pay-cheque will protect t...
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Where cover is hard to get
Wythenshawe, a huge sprawling council estate nestling between Manchester's airport and the M56, loses out in the car insurance stakes.
An AA survey this week named it a...
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UK now Europe's jail capital
Britain is now the prison capital of western Europe, with an average incarceration rate of 139 for every 100,000 of population in England and Wales, and is even outstripp...
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Lib Dems offer two-way pledge on tax
The Liberal Democrats have fired the opening shot of a potentially critical local election battle by announcing they would cut council tax by £100 a taxpayer but als...
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Banking 
