Online loans that can go off the rails
A new-style online personal loan service, Zopa (www.zopa.com), has been attacked by the lending industry and consumer groups for reducing consumer protection. And despite...
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Brown rides to the rescue again
When the Bank of England was granted operational independence over monetary policy - ie the freedom to decide when and by how much interest rates should change - the Trea...
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High street sales wither in February freeze
Britain's retailers are calling on the Bank of England to cut interest rates after high street sales fell in February for the third time in four months.
The British Ret...
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Treasury rejected Bank of England independence four times
An independent Bank of England was seen as an alternative to entering the Exchange Rate Mechanism as an anti-inflation anchor almost a decade before Gordon Brown freed Th...
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Worst' hospital disputes MRSA infection figures
A foundation trust which topped the league table for rates of MRSA infection has attacked the figures as "misleading" claiming they "grossly misrepresent" the hospital's ...
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Praised in print? Must be ripe for fraud
If the directors have big share options, the chief executive is lionised in the press and the corporate governance is praised, bail out now: these are among the biggest p...
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Diary
The Diary is normally too repressed to celebrate sentimentalism in public life, but occasionally a little heartwarmer sneaks under the wire, and today it's an Evening Sta...
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Argentina says debt default is over
Argentina was poised last night to announce it had reached agreement with its creditors to restructure $103bn (£54bn) of its debts, more than three years after decla...
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In excellent health
For the last couple of years, Labour have been desperately trying to shift the focus onto health and education - and then the Tories go and do it for them with their Marg...
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Society Facts
The government is claiming credit for a fall in deaths related to drug abuse after the total dropped to its lowest since 1994.
Figures from the Office of National Stati...
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