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Fitch warns Britain and questions Greek rescue as sovereign risks grow
Posted on March 10, 2010
Fitch Ratings has delivered a serious blow to the credibility of the Government's budget plans, warning that Britain risks a loss of investor confidence and erosion of its AAA rating unless it maps out clear austerity measures.
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    Nine out of 10 young families in London cannot afford home
    Posted on March 9, 2010
    Analysis by a government housing advisory body found that as an average figure across the capital only 10 per cent of young families could afford to buy a suitable home.
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    Sir James Dyson plan to fill UK's engineering vacuum
    Posted on March 9, 2010
    A radical set of proposals aimed at rebuilding Britain's manufacturing and technology industries and helping pull Britain out recession have been published by Sir James Dyson, the vacuum-cleaner entrepreneur.
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    Exclusive: Lord Paul to end his non-domiciled tax status--Medhi Hasan
    Posted on March 9, 2010
    In an exclusive interview with the New Statesman, Labour peer and longtime party donor, Lord Paul of Marylebone, says he is to end his controversial "non-dom" tax status. He says:
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    Call for universities to be able to charge unlimited tuition fees
    Posted on March 9, 2010
    Universities should be given the freedom to charge students whatever tuition fee they like, the body representing the country's 750 largest employers of graduates will say today.
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    True scale of violent crime rise revealed
    Posted on March 9, 2010
    Violent attacks are estimated to be 44 per cent higher than they were in 1998 after research on the way police record them allowed comparisons for the first time. The study, by the independent House of Commons Library, shows violence against the person increased from 618,417 to 887,942 last year.

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    Labour and Tories neck and neck in marginals
    Posted on March 9, 2010
    Labour and the Conservatives are neck and neck in the marginal seats that will determine the outcome of the general election, raising doubts over David Cameron’s ability to win a clear overall majority, according to a special poll for The Times.
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    Shaming of the NHS: Patients STILL treated in kitchens, abandoned in mop cupboards and left without meals despite Labour's billions
    Posted on March 9, 2010
    Patients are routinely being treated in kitchens, mop cupboards and corridors because hospitals are so overcrowded, a shocking survey reveals. Third World conditions are commonplace, with hospitals housing patients for days in storage areas, offices, TV rooms and outpatient clinics.
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    Dog owners facing tough new insurance regulations
    Posted on March 9, 2010
    Dog owners could be required to insure themselves against the risk of their pet attacking someone, it was announced today.
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    MPs back strike over civil service redundancy pay
    Posted on March 8, 2010
    Union leaders clashed with the Government tonight over the effect of a strike by civil servants. The Public and Commercial Services union claimed more than 200,000 employees had walked out causing "widespread disruption" to services.
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    Harriet Harman threatens official action to get more women into boardrooms
    Posted on March 8, 2010
    Harriet Harman is threatening to force companies to do more in appointing female directors, in an attempt to end the “old boy network” in boardrooms.
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    Massive rise in interest rates on personal loans
    Posted on March 8, 2010
    Banks have massively hiked interest rates on personal loans during the slump. Figures from the personal finance group Defaqto show the average annual percentage rate (APR) on a £5,000 loan has jumped from 9.8 per cent to 13.9 per cent in the past two years, increasing the cost of borrowing by 42 per cent.
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    Peter Mandelson raises stakes in Lord Ashcroft row
    Posted on March 8, 2010
    Business secretary says Ashcroft has Cameron 'by the balls' and that affair reveals 'fundamental weakness'
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    Carer respite funding 'spent elsewhere' say charities
    Posted on March 8, 2010
    Millions of pounds intended to fund respite breaks for voluntary carers has been spent on other areas of the NHS, according to two charities.
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    Army faces Afghan gag for election
    Posted on March 8, 2010
    The Ministry of Defence has been accused of ordering a “truth blackout” over the war in Afghanistan amid warnings it is attempting to “bury bad news” during the election campaign.
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    Tories accuse senior police of giving political cover to Labour
    Posted on March 8, 2010
    A Conservative government could find itself at war with police chiefs amid accusations that some are too close to the Labour Party.
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    Labour's scramble to launch £11bn spree
    Posted on March 8, 2010
    Labour was accused yesterday of rushing through £11bn of spending before the general election in a "scorched earth" policy to prevent its pet projects being scrapped by an incoming Conservative government.
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    SAS in Afghanistan suffers worst losses for 60 years
    Posted on March 7, 2010
    BRITAIN’S special forces have suffered the worst blow to their fighting strength since the second world war, with 80 members killed or crippled in Afghanistan.
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    Labour accused of ‘rank hypocrisy’ over Lord Ashcroft attacks
    Posted on March 7, 2010
    Despite repeatedly calling for greater transparency over the Lord Ashcroft affair, Harriet Harman, Labour’s deputy leader, refused to discuss the party’s own “non-dom” backers. She insisted that she did not know whether Labour donors Lord Paul, Sir Ronald Cohen and William Bollinger were non-doms, and said that there was nothing wrong with those who legally avoided paying tax on their overseas earnings funding political parties.
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    • A weak pound is no substitute for making tough decisions on debt
    Posted on March 7, 2010
    There are growing concerns not only about Britain's dire fiscal position, but that this country's political classes lack the grit and determination to do anything about it. Sterling was hammered down through $1.50 last week, the UK currency hitting a 10-month dollar low.
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    James Bulger killer Jon Venables confessed real identity to strangers as mental state crumbled
    Posted on March 7, 2010
    Prison staff fear an attack by other inmates as it is revealed that pressure of keeping his name and background secret led James Bulger's murderer to fights, and drink and drug abuse
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    Gordon Brown accused of cheap stunt in military cuts row
    Posted on March 7, 2010
    GORDON BROWN was accused of using British troops as “political props” as he flew into Afghanistan yesterday in the middle of a row over his support for the armed forces.
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    Islamists got voters out for Livingstone
    Posted on March 7, 2010
    A fundamentalist group which believes in sharia law, jihad and creating an "Islamic social and political order" in Britain arranged an "unprecedented mobilisation" of voters for the former London mayor, Ken Livingstone, at the last mayoral election.
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    Shoppers could face VAT on food
    Posted on March 7, 2010
    The imposition of VAT on groceries is being actively considered by Whitehall officials as a radical means of reducing the national deficit.
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    Labour hid ugly truth about National Health Service (NHS)
    Posted on March 7, 2010
    DAMNING reports on the state of the National Health Service, suppressed by the government, reveal how patients’ needs have been neglected. They diagnose a blind pursuit of political and managerial targets as the root cause of a string of hospital scandals that have cost thousands of lives.
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    Cameron attacks 'spendaholic' Labour
    Posted on March 6, 2010
    Tory leader cites £10m in tax credits paid to dead people, £240,000 spent on Brazilian dancing and £12,000 for branded golf balls
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    Geert Wilders: showing my film was victory for freedom of speech
    Posted on March 6, 2010
    Geert Wilders, the far-right Dutch politician, has used a visit to London to launch an attack on Islam.
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    Gove unveils Tory plan for return to ‘traditional’ school lessons
    Posted on March 6, 2010
    Children will be instructed to learn poetry by heart and recite the kings and queens of England, in a return to a “traditionalist” education planned by the Conservatives.
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    Hundreds of NHS wards to be shut in secret plans
    Posted on March 6, 2010
    Plans that could lead to the closure of hundreds of hospital wards are being drawn up but will not be made public until after the general election, opposition parties have said.
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    Jack Straw to meet James Bulger's mother over recall of Jon Venables
    Posted on March 6, 2010
    Denise Fergus demanded a meeting with the Justice Secretary after he refused to disclose the reason Venables is back behind bars after being released in 2001.
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