All steamed up over high rail fares
Complaints on price should worry firms
A few shards of light have penetrated the perennial gloom of the railway network. In a startling turn of events, passengers seem t...
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Osborne waters down Tories' pledge to lower taxes
David Cameron's new-look Conservative party announced its latest policy U-turn yesterday when it admitted that sorting out Britain's public finances and ensuring economic...
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Fresh tax tricks
The Conservative party under David Cameron has become almost embarrassing in the way it apes the early days of New Labour under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.
Today it was...
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Poor diet link to rising cases of depression
Increasing rates of anxiety, depression and irritability could be due to a poor diet that lacks the essential chemicals to keep the brain healthy, according to a leading ...
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How UK plc stays ahead of the taxman
Nobody likes paying taxes, but Britain's biggest companies have got complaining down to a fine art. Several are currently engaged in a long-running fight to prove that so...
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Poor sexual health plans condemned
Local health services were condemned today for failing to make sexual healthcare a priority despite the spiralling rate of sexually transmitted infections.
Contraceptive...
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Overheated gilt markets burning pension funds
Fresh evidence of the additional £35bn headache caused to Britain's pension funds by the collapse in government bond yields since the turn of the year emerged yeste...
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Further along
It is hard to believe that Success for All, the long term improvement strategy for further education, has just marked its third birthday. Much has been achieved in that s...
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UK tax 'keeps top footballers out
English football clubs have missed out on a string of the world's best players, including Barcelona's Ronaldinho and Inter Milan's Luis Figo, because ministers refused to...
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Fashions fade. Consistency is a constant
Japan, emerging markets and resources were the place for investors last year: seven of the 20 top-performing funds, as measured by Lipper, were Japanese specialists; five...
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