What do no votes mean for the union?
It was business as usual for the European Central Bank yesterday. Just as it has at every meeting for the past 24 months, it left interest rates on hold. The no votes in ...
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Alien nation
The French debate on the European Union constitution, or to be more accurate the arguments put forward by the mainstream left against that much-maligned treaty, is slowly...
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Store card chief who wants to take all of the credit
Brad Cooper ought to be a household name. More than 11 million adults in this country owe him, or rather the company he runs, an average of £300.
As the head of GE...
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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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