Report urges overhaul of Welsh social services
Social services in Wales need an urgent relaunch to deal with high staff-vacancy and turnover rates, a major new report has recommended today.
A two-year multi-agency re...
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London pleads for terror 'rebate
London businesses are asking for a 'rates rebate' to help them recover from the economic impact of last month's terrorist attacks on the capital, writes James Robinson. T...
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Richard Hawley, Coles Corner
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Scott Walker, the great existential balladeer, and a man not given to overstatement, rates Richard Hawley's voice as 'up there with the a...
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Does the maestro sign off in credit?
Alan Greenspan, darling of Wall Street, monetary 'maestro' and personification of the American boom, retires in the new year. As rumours fly in Washington about who will ...
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VAT fraud big enough to skew trade figures
The Office for National Statistics said yesterday that a renewed outbreak of so-called "missing trader fraud" had so skewed Britain's trade figures that it could not have...
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Virtue of Keynes
You rightly attribute current serious economic problems (Bankruptcies hit highest level since 1960; Barclaycard cuts credit limits as debts rise, August 6) to the huge ac...
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Credit card charges 'excessive
Credit card companies have been told they have three months to change their late payment charges for customers, or they will face action from the government's consumer wa...
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HSBC to share credit records
Banks and credit card companies will be given access for the first time to previously secret information about millions of HSBC current account customers, after the bank ...
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Barclays reports record profits
Barclays today reported record first-half profits despite a surge in bad loans at its Barclaycard credit card unit.
For the six months to the end of June, Britain's thir...
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NHS scorecard shows improvement but could do better, say inspectors
The NHS is meeting its targets, but failing to treat patients as customers entitled to good service, the health inspectorate said yesterday in its annual report for Engla...
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