Brown is on the ball yet again
Gordon Brown's continuing success as Chancellor is a journalistic frustration. His economic forecasts prove more accurate than those of his self-righteous and near perman...
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Major boost for childcare is a winner for families
Parents are the big winners from this year's Pre-Budget Report, with boosts to the finances and increased access to care for those with babies and young children.
Chanc...
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Face to face, a victim seeks justice from her burglar
The burglar was moving towards his victim's back door when a neighbour saw him in the shadows and dialled 999. As Alexi Estathiou, desperate for money to buy heroin, was ...
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Banking on a soft landing
Will 2004 prove to be the high-water mark for Britain's banking giants? They are on course to report bumper profits after the biggest borrowing binge in history. But this...
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Cops and robbers
The temptation to romanticise a huge bank raid should always be resisted. That was, and still is, one of the worst aspects of Britain's celebrated "great" train robbery o...
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Inquiry launched into doorstep lenders
The £2bn-a-year home credit industry is to be investigated by the Competition Commission, it emerged yesterday.
The move comes on the advice of the Office of Fair ...
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Council tax rises capped at 5%
Council tax rises in England should be less than 5% next year after the government pumped ?1bn into local authority finances, the local government minister, Nick Raynsfor...
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German A-level 'too hard
German is considered too hard to study at A-level, research from the Anglo-German Foundation has revealed.
A survey of drop out rates from German between AS and A-level ...
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Westminster council plans 'zero' tax bill
A pledge by a top ranking London borough to reduce its council tax charges to zero within eight years has been described as 'barmy'.
The denunciation came from Labour op...
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Plan to cut tax on social housing
The European commission is considering a tax change that the could save the UK's housing associations hundreds of millions of pounds each year, it emerged today.
Housing...
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