Rate of violent pupils expelled rises for first time since 1996
The number of children expelled from school because of violence and lack of discipline is set to rise for the first time in five years as head teachers take aggressive ac...
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Preaching for the second-rate
Mere Christianity
CS Lewis
read by Geoffrey Howard
running time 6hrs
Harper Collins £12.99
'God will not love you any the less, or have less use for you if you ha...
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Argos adds cut-rate phone calls to its product range
Argos, the high street catalogue retailer, is moving into telecommunications by joining the growing band of companies offering BT land line customers cut-price calls.
T...
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Fall in teacher vacancy rate 'disguises government complacency
The government was yesterday accused of complacency over ongoing teacher shortages, after publishing new figures which show that while the overall national vacancy rate h...
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Mmm. We seem to be zooming down to earth at a colossal rate of knots
London's chic Sanderson hotel is exactly the sort of place you'd expect to find Bryan Ferry, sometime frontman of Roxy Music, the most glamorous rock group ever. Ferry is...
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Board pay rises at three times rate of workers
Pay rises for directors have outstripped wage increases for their workers by 3:1 over the past seven years, according to a survey published today.
The widening gap betw...
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Second-rate players will both be stretcher cases
The ding-dong row being played out between ITV and the Football League, which is threatening to move from the back page to the front of the nation's newspapers, has provi...
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Cahoot cuts rate paid on its current account
Cahoot, the internet bank operated by Abbey National, this week cut the interest paid on its current accounts but still remains ahead of rivals.
Anyone with a balance o...
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Will you pay higher rate tax on your redundancy pay?
Q I am due to be made redundant shortly. Around April 7, I will receive a redundancy payment of ?77,000, less basic rate tax above ?30,000, and then receive a pension of ...
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England worse than China in prison population rate
England has proportionately more people in prison than China, Saudi Arabia or Turkey, according to world prison population statistics released by the Home Office yesterda...
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