Spy in the bank
The general insurance division of one of Britain's biggest banks believes it has 'found a way round' the data Protection Act enabling it to use customers' banking details...
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Court 13 and the weird world of Polanski and his women
Against the events in London last week, Polanski versus Condé Nast Publications Ltd hardly rates as significant. And yet the £50,000 damages plus costs award...
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The high price of investing in oil's future
The oil price has risen more than 50 per cent over the past year and almost six-fold since the lows of the late Nineties, and some experts predict that it will double by ...
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Stop tax bias against Britons, Spain told
The European Commission is calling on Spain to reduce tax for foreigners selling property there.
The commission says foreigners are 'discriminated against' because they ...
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Markets bounce back
At 8am yesterday the FTSE 100 share index, the supposed barometer of Britain's corporate health, snapped back above 5,200. Within a couple of hours, share prices were bac...
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Green energy will never meet needs, says Exxon
ExxonMobil has dismissed solar and wind energy as "inconsequential" and urges politicians to concentrate on sources that would continue to provide 99% of future energy ne...
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Africa tells west: scrap trade barriers
The world's rich countries should spend less time telling African countries how to run their economies and instead concentrate on scrapping their harmful trade-distorting...
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Weak service sector puts growth at risk
Service sector performance deteriorated sharply in the last three months, increasing the risk of a severe slowdown in economic growth, the British Chambers of Commerce sa...
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Research helped to uphold status quo
The BMA based its decision to keep the abortion time limit at 24 weeks on evidence of the poor survival rates of babies born more prematurely.
A briefing paper prepared...
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Manufacturing shrinking slows
Britain's manufacturing sector shrank for the third month running in June but at a slower rate than expected, a report showed today.
The purchasing managers' index (PMI)...
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