Insurance
You are required by law to have adequate insurance cover for your car. Before buying a car it's sensible to get a few speculative quotes, to see how much insuring your ch...
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Scottish NHS 'is failing cancer patients
Scotland's health boards are unlikely to meet any of the targets they have been set for improving cancer treatment rates, despite being given extra funding, watchdogs rev...
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Putting the tax brakes on company cars
Company cars used to be a great perk: every three years you'd get a new, bigger model and could hammer it up and down the motorway without a thought to either the financi...
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Slippery slope
As I slid backwards, gathering speed at an alarming rate, I heard a little voice cry out: "Backward pizza, backward pizza."
The advice came from a boy with all the trimm...
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Humanitarian crisis worsens as violence in Darfur escalates
The crisis in Darfur has sharply deteriorated over the last few months because of an increase in violence, a senior United Nations official said yesterday.
Craig Sanders...
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Barclaycard bad debts and rising costs blemish bank's bumper year
Barclaycard is on course to report its first fall in full-year profits since 1997 as customers fail to repay credit card debt and the company invests in growth.
The decl...
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When honesty isn't the best policy
If colleges educate students without payment from the government, should they be obliged to declare them in official surveys? This is far from an academic question. It is...
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First class
Future's so bright
Two reasons to be cheerful this week: unemployment rates among graduates have dropped and wages are increasing, according to the What Do Graduates Do?...
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View from a broad
It's been a terrible week for the police. The dreadful loss of WPC Sharon Beshenivsky, the news that conviction rates for rape are at their lowest for 30 years, which can...
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Continent at the crossroads
In Stockholm, a busy executive authorises her annual tax return from her mobile phone. In Paris, a young man orders an official copy of his criminal record from an intern...
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