Infection teams to target hospitals failing to halt MRSA rise
The government yesterday announced it will send teams of experts into hospitals that are failing to get MRSA rates down, as the latest figures revealed that "superbug" in...
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Pickets target Brighthouse over credit for the deprived
A retail chain owned by City financier Guy Hands has been targeted by consumer debt campaigners for charging 'pernicious' prices for consumer goods, from home entertainme...
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Bank under fire for 'best buy' loan dodge
Critics this week accused Alliance & Leicester of manipulating its personal loan rates to push its internet bank to the top of the newspaper "best buy" tables.
Moneyback...
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Brown needs further £2.5bn in taxes, says thinktank
Gordon Brown is likely to have to raise taxes by a further £2.5bn to ensure his golden rule for the public finances is met, the influential Institute for Fiscal Stu...
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Ben?tez's Reds better than team I left, says Fowler
Robbie Fowler rates the new Liverpool under Rafael Benítez a far better side than the one he left behind four years and two months ago.
The 30-year-old's love aff...
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Banking on Bernanke
Picking a successor for Alan Greenspan, who led the Federal Reserve for 18 years, was an easy job for George Bush. There was really one man for the job.
Ben Bernanke, wh...
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Councils get two-year finance settlement
Councils in England are to receive above-inflation rises in government funding for the next two years, it was announced today.
The announcement came with a warning that...
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Pension credits under fire
The government's policy on council tax benefit and pension credit is failing the UK's pensioners, leading charities said today, as official figures showed thousands had m...
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Meet the man the Square Mile loves to hate
David Norgrove may look like the archetypal mild-mannered public servant but, for much of corporate Britain, as chairman of the Pensions Regulator he is blamed for everyt...
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Replace council tax with 1% property levy - NIESR
The government should scrap council tax and replace it with a 1% tax on the value of property, a leading thinktank proposes. Releasing its latest quarterly economic forec...
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