German executives cleared over Vodafone payments
A court today cleared Germany's leading bank chief and five others of illegally overpaying executives following Europe's biggest corporate takeover.
In a packed courtroo...
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E-university bosses defend bonus payments
The men in charge of the UK's ill-fated e-university, which has folded with a ?50m loss to the taxpayer, today strongly defended the bonus payments they received and blam...
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Weekly graduate payments 'will halve', says Clarke
Weekly payments by graduates will halve under the government's tuition fees scheme, Charles Clarke, the education secretary, said today as he welcomed the news that the h...
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MPs attack e-university bonus payments
The "scandal" of paying bonuses to the chief executive and staff of Britain's e-university, which has folded with the loss of ?50m of taxpayers' money, was strongly conde...
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Taxman to claw back hardship payments
Families on low incomes that received tax credit hardship payments before April will be forced to pay the money back in the current tax year, Citizens Advice warned this ...
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Top companies bump up pension scheme payments
The UK's biggest companies paid nearly twice as much into their pension schemes during 2003 as they did the previous year, research showed today.
Consultants Watson Wy...
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Indies in row with MTV over plan to slash payments
A row is raging between MTV and European independent record labels that threatens to prevent artists such as The Prodigy and the White Stripes being played on its music c...
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Abbott failed to declare TV payments
Labour MP Diane Abbott was today told to apologise in person to the House of Commons for failing to declare payments for her work as a co-presenter of a television progra...
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No more payments to ex-wife
A dentist whose alcoholic ex-wife lives with a new partner need not go on supporting her for life or until remarriage, the court of appeal ruled yesterday.
Peter Flemin...
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Secret payments report fuels Hollinger crisis
The financial crisis engulfing Lord Black, the owner of the Daily Telegraph, escalated last night after Hollinger International admitted that the Tory peer may have kept ...
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