Making the grade
Is there any point in an exam which no one fails? A-level results published today show the 22nd consecutive increase in the pass rate, by 0.6 percentage points to 96%. We...
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MPC confirms property cool-off
Hopes that interest rates have peaked grew after minutes of this month's monetary policy committee meeting, released yesterday, showed support for the view that the housi...
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Japanese giants have a yen for a merger
Corporate mergers in Japan are usually very private affairs. The public knows little about them until the deal is done and dusted. However, the saga unfolding between thr...
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Sowing the seeds of discontent
The schools standards minister, David Miliband, this week tried to forestall the doomongers who claim rising A-level pass rates mean standards are slipping.
But, as Mr ...
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Self-harm becoming 'epidemic
The number of Britons deliberately harming themselves is reaching "epidemic" levels, according to an NHS watchdog.
More than 170,000 people a year seek hospital care aft...
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Babies saved by operation in womb
Doctors have reported apparently significant improvements in survival rates in babies born with holes in their diaphragm, by enlarging their lung capacity in the weeks be...
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House prices begin to fall
House prices fell by 0.1% during July as rising interest rate rises took their toll on the property market, figures showed today.
The property website Hometrack said th...
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Out of touch, but not out of the woods
As his recent Houdini act demonstrated, Tony Blair has still got the Commons Touch. What neither he nor many political commentators do not seem to realise is that he has ...
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When the right job puts you on the road to cheap cover
Low-paid manual workers are routinely being charged 10-20% more for car insurance than high-earning professionals such as solicitors, according to data from the AA.
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Our store cards are marked
Lurid tales of shoppers in debt therapy and regular attacks on stratospheric interest rates have given store cards a bad name. Few would speak in their defence.
That is...
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Engineering 
