Rape centres crisis
Your leader (March 31) was spot on in its analysis of the causes of appallingly low rape conviction rates, but it is not true that there are more rape crisis centres now;...
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Post Office launches high interest account
The Post Office today launched a new instant access savings account paying an interest rate of 4.75%.
The Instant Saver account is available to customers aged 11 and ove...
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Cameron is forced to reveal names behind £24m loans
The Conservative party will today disclose the full list of donors who lent the party £24m before the last general election. The list is expected to reveal previous...
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Royal Bank of Scotland fuels bid rumour mill
Another day, another bid rumour in the banking sector. This time it was Royal Bank of Scotland. While earlier in the week Alliance & Leicester, up 11p at £11.90, wa...
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Watchdog casts doubt on legality of loans
The row over Labour and the Conservatives' secret loans exploded back into life tonight after the electoral watchdog said it doubted the original loans were made on comme...
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Mobile firms vow to fight 'heavy-handed' charges crackdown
Europe's phone companies pledged yesterday to fight plans by Brussels to abolish mobile roaming charges which generate £6.9bn a year.
A plan by the European commis...
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Study reveals financial crisis of the 18-40s
An official government study into Britain's personal finances reveals a lost generation of 18- to 40-year-olds unable to cope with debts and soaring house prices, with al...
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Brown delivers a budget for 'stability
Gordon Brown today unveiled what he described as a "culture of stability" budget, with a clutch of green measures, a radical overhaul of road taxes and more money for sci...
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Consumer prices rise in February
Britain's inflation rate rose for the first time in five months, edging up to 2% in February, official figures showed today.
The Office for National Statistics said the ...
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Capita chairman quits after criticism of loan to Labour
The Labour loans controversy claimed its first victim yesterday when Rod Aldridge, the head of Capita, the firm that has made millions of pounds from outsourcing public s...
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