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Connaught, the property services group that specialises in social housing, is on the brink of going into administration, the BBC learns. Read more: |
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Experts make their predictions on house prices Read more: |
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Criminals have managed to clone prepayment meter keys in order to make money by offering discounted credit to customers. Read more: |
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Retail sales rose in August, partly thanks to strong sales of children's clothing ahead of the new school year, figures suggest. Read more: |
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British Airways and Iberia have drawn up a shortlist of up to 12 airlines which they hope to buy or merge with once their own tie-up has been completed. Read more: |
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Severe disruption is expected on London Underground as the first workers begin a 24-hour strike. Read more: |
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President Barack Obama announces a $50bn infrastructure plan as part of efforts to jump-start the faltering US economy. Read more: |
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Union leaders warn BA faces fresh strike action by cabin crew unless a settlement is reached to end the long-running dispute. Read more: |
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The EU budget commissioner says he sees no grounds for the UK to keep its budget rebate. Read more: |
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South African trade unions suspend a nationwide strike which has paralysed schools and hospitals for 20 days. Read more: |
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Controversial Internet evangelist Bill Keller launched his "9/11 Christian Center" on Sunday in response to what he calls the Park51 "victory mosque" near Ground Zero. He assailed Imam Feisal Rauf, Glenn Beck, Gandhi—and he condemned me to hell. But is it all just a publicity stunt? Read more: |
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Germany's government agrees to extend the life span of the country's nuclear power plants by an average of 12 years, officials say. Read more: |
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Customers of Orange and T-Mobile will soon be able to hop between the two mobile networks as the firms merge their networks. Read more: |
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What they really show is that few subjects inspire more intellectual dishonesty and political puffery than “school reform.” Read more: |
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Rising overseas demand has created buoyant conditions for manufacturers in the UK, an industry report suggests, though threats remain. Read more: |
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Severe disruption is expected on London's Underground network when the first in a series of strikes begins later. Read more: |
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Pensioners hit by the Equitable Life scandal are making a final attempt to persuade the government to pay them full compensation. Read more: |
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Severstal, Russia's largest steel producer, returned to profit in the last quarter, but missed analysts' expectations. Read more: |
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It may have been a relief to many when the World Cup’s vuvuzelas finally stopped blaring, but now the Rainbow Nation’s winter of good feeling is emphatically over. A recent government workers’ strike grew so massive that the Army was called out to keep hospitals open. Read more: |
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Decades after such figures appeared elsewhere in Europe, Germany finally has produced its own high-profile star of the anti-immigrant right. But only for about a week. Thilo Sarrazin, a former Social Democratic politician, set off the fiercest storm of public outrage in recent memory with his new book, Germany Abolishes Itself, in which he lays bare the failures of German education, migration, and welfare policies. Read more: |
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In the aftermath of the BP oil spill, lawmakers have, understandably, focused on sweeping reforms of offshore-drilling protocols. But no matter how worried we are about the rigs, we can’t ignore our inland oil issues. Read more: |
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If President Obama has any sense, he'll do more than go to Ohio on Wednesday and give a speech about the economy. His expected proposal--to make permanent the research and development tax credit for business--is overdue, expensive ($100 billion over ten years) and about as politically exciting as a vacation to Moldavia with your accountant. Read more: |
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President Obama recently scarfed a “super sub” to show his support for mom-and-pop businesses, crediting the little guy with the majority of U.S. job growth. Every modern president has done the same. There’s just one problem: it isn’t true, according to a new study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. The work—the first to track employment by age and size of the hiring company—found that small, mature firms (those with fewer than 500 employees and at least 10 years in operation) are actually net drags on job growth. On average, between 1992 and 2005, they destroyed more salaries than they created. In 2005, for example, small businesses lost about a million jobs, even as the overall economy expanded by about 2.5 million. Startups accounted for nearly all the growth. Read more: |
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Marine Le Pen is moving her father’s rabble-rousing, far-right party away from the fringe, and redefining French politics in the process. Read more: |
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Armed police are posted outside the main branch of Kabul Bank as customers continue to withdraw money amid fears it may collapse. Read more: |
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The Indian businessman hoping to buy Blackburn Rovers, Ahsan Ali Syed, left a trail of debt from his time in the UK, 5 live Investigates reveals. Read more: |
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The official in charge of cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill says the well which caused the damage is no longer a risk to the environment. Read more: |
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At the Zikim Kibbutz, near Ashkelon in southern Israel, tourists come in to see what life is like living just a short distance from the Gaza border. Read more: |
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Almost six million people in the UK have paid the wrong amount of income tax in the past year, with some facing a bill of up to £1,400 - although others can expect a rebate. Read more: |
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Egypt's literary scene is thriving, with a new generation of writers and poets taking advantage of an increasing number of small publishers and social networking sites to get their work noticed. Read more: |
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