Criminal justice system 'failing
Reoffending rates after a prison sentence are at an "unacceptably high level" and the failure of the criminal justice system to stop prisoners reoffending should shock th...
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Sales slump for JJB Sports
JJB Sports yesterday revealed another slump in sales, blaming rises in tax and interest rates for the decline. City analysts cut their profit forecasts for the year and a...
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Media pluckers strike again
Gulf in success rates of IVF clinics, was the predictable headline that greeted the publication this week by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority's annual gui...
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Call for tighter controls on doorstep lending
A consumer group today renewed its call for a shake-up of the UK's ?2bn home credit market in a bid to protect vulnerable people.
The National Consumer Council (NCC) sa...
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Number of jobless falls by 15,000
The number of jobless people in the UK fell by 15,000 in the three months to March, leaving the jobless rate steady at 4.7%, official figures showed today.
However, in a...
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City slickers get off farmland as sales fall
The increase in farmland prices has ground to a halt following rising interest rates and uncertainty over the housing market, figures showed today.
At the same time, the...
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Raising the standard
George Pilard (Letters, May 6) criticises the "poor literacy rates" in the UK and later uses the OECD to back up his point about pensions. If he read other OECD reports, ...
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Allyson Pollock: Healthy sceptic
Allyson Pollock is moving. Ministers and those with a vested interest in the government's private finance initiatives (PFI) would doubtless happily fund a one-way ticket ...
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PM-in-waiting plans to revitalise Labour
From the moment it was clear the opinion polls were accurate and Labour was on course for a third election victory, the political class shifted to the real issue: when wi...
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The economy is going backwards, not forwards
The City is predicting that the Bank of England's monetary policy committee will leave interest rates on hold when it announces the determination of its monthly meeting t...
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