LONDON (Reuters) - Crime in England and Wales fell last year with the risk of being a victim the lowest in almost 30 years, official figures showed on Thursday.
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Burglary, robbery and vandalism fall
LONDON (Reuters) - Bosses at over 400 small and medium businesses in Britain have joined some of the country’s largest employers on Thursday by backing the Conservatives’ plans to curb a planned payroll tax rise.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Consumer morale suffered its biggest fall since July 2008 last month, wiping out all gains since the start of the year due to a sharp drop in optimism about the next six months, a survey showed on Thursday.
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March consumer morale drops
LONDON (Reuters) - Consumer morale suffered its biggest fall since July 2008 last month, wiping out all gains since the start of the year due to a sharp drop in optimism about the next six months, a survey showed on Thursday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - An inquiry cleared British climate researchers of wrongdoing on Wednesday after their hacked emails were leaked and held up by sceptics as evidence they exaggerated the case for man-made global warming.
LONDON (Reuters) - The regenerations of Time Lord Doctor Who were modelled on the “horrifying” side effects of drug-induced trips, according to archived documents published by the BBC.
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Was LSD an influence on Doctor Who?
LONDON (Reuters) - The Conservatives would seek to limit government intervention in business should they win the May 6 election, the party’s business spokesman told the Financial Times.
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Conservatives vow to limit intervention
LONDON (Reuters) - The housing market cooled abruptly last month, a survey showed on Tuesday, but consumers splashed out for Easter despite uncertainty ahead of next month’s election.
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Property recovery stutters
LONDON (Reuters) - House prices grew last month at their slowest pace since July after the amount of new property coming on to the market grew faster than the number of new buyers, a survey indicated on Tuesday.
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House price growth slows sharply in March
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - He might have been just another young Hollywood actor on the rise, but Jonathan Rhys Meyers chose to become a king — on TV. And doing so, the actor said, changed his life.
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Being a "Tudors" king changed Jonathan Rhys Meyers
BERLIN (Reuters) - A German woman arrested on suspicion of trying to smuggle a corpse onto a plane says her husband was still alive when they reached Liverpool airport.
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Corpse was still alive at airport, wife says
LONDON (Reuters) - Election officials will for the first time use Facebook to encourage more people to register to vote on May 6 after the turnout reached historic lows in the last two ballots, a watchdog said on Friday.
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Facebook joins drive to get voters to polls
LONDON (Reuters) - Institutional shareholders are increasingly voting against company boards in a sign that investors are becoming vocal about issues such as pay and strategy, an influential investor body said on Thursday.
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More investors vote against company boards - ABI
LONDON (Reuters) - Government management of support for people struggling to repay debts has been a “complete failure” and needs urgent reform, MPs said on Thursday.
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Consumer debt help planning was "complete failure"- report
LONDON (Reuters) - Growth in take-home pay rebounded in March, with those working in the manufacturing sector experiencing the sharpest rise, a survey showed on Thursday.
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Take-home pay growth rebounds in March: VocaLink
LONDON (Reuters) - The Labour Party will make an election pledge to hold the basic income tax rate at 20 pence, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said in an interview on Wednesday.
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PM says to hold income tax at 20 pence
LONDON (Reuters) - British Airways carried 11.4 percent fewer passengers in March year-on-year, hit by seven days of cabin crew strikes, which it said would cost the company up to 45 million pounds.
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BA March traffic hit by cabin crew strikes
LONDON (Reuters) - Labour government has delayed plans for a new tax to fund broadband access following negotiations to pass budget laws before parliament is dissolved ahead of the May election, the Treasury said on Wednesday.
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Government delays broadband tax, limits cider duty hike
LONDON (Reuters) - Comedians Lenny Henry and Dawn French have separated after 25 years of marriage, their spokesman said on Tuesday.
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Lenny Henry and Dawn French split up
LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. food giant Kraft was irresponsible and unwise in reversing its commitment to keep Cadbury’s Somerdale plant open in its takeover battle of the British chocolate maker, a committee of UK lawmakers reported on Tuesday
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MPs slam Kraft over plant closure
LONDON (Reuters) - Leading political parties attacked each other’s tax policies on Sunday before the widely anticipated official start of an election campaign early next week.
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Parties tussle over tax ahead of election call
LONDON (Reuters) - Manufacturing activity grew last month at its fastest rate since October 1994, when the economy was also recovering from a deep recession, a survey of purchasing managers showed on Thursday.
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Manufacturing activity hits 15-year high
LONDON (Reuters) - The rate of pay growth in Britain slipped in the three months to February but the proportion of companies freezing remuneration fell, a study of pay deals by Incomes Data Services showed on Thursday.
LONDON (Reuters) - The rate of pay growth in Britain slipped in the three months to February but the proportion of companies freezing remuneration fell, a study of pay deals by Incomes Data Services showed on Thursday.
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Wage growth slows but pay freezes less common
LONDON (Reuters) - Regular mammographic screening for breast cancer saves the lives of two women for every one who is given unnecessary treatment, scientists said on Wednesday, in a study which adds to a global row over screening programmes.
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Study finds breast screen programmes save lives
LONDON (Reuters) - A drug to treat the urinary symptoms of prostate enlargement, previously available only on prescription, is to be sold over the counter in pharmacies to men aged 45 to 75 years from Wednesday.
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Prostate drug available without prescription
LONDON (Reuters) - The economy came out of an 18-month recession in the fourth quarter of last year with more momentum than expected, official data showed on Tuesday.
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Q4 GDP unexpectedly revised up
LONDON (Reuters) - House prices rose 0.7 percent in March, largely reversing the previous month’s fall, the Nationwide Building Society said on Tuesday, in a sign the housing market recovery is not completely dead yet.
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House prices bounce back in March
LONDON (Reuters) - The outlook on Britain’s triple-A rating remains negative due to worries over the government’s rising debt burden, ratings agency Standard & Poor’s said on Monday.
LONDON (Reuters) - The financial services sector will record higher growth in the next three months, after a flat quarter, according to senior executives polled by Britain’s biggest business lobby.
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Finance execs see growth
LONDON (Reuters) - Radical and carefully thought reform is needed to shield taxpayers from having to bail out troubled banks again, a parliamentary report said on Monday.
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UK lawmakers seek radical bank reform
LONDON (Reuters) - Conservative leader David Cameron said on Sunday there would be a limit to what the party could do this year to tackle the country’s deficit if it wins the upcoming election.
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Cameron says deficit cuts would be limited in 2010
LONDON (Reuters) - The leader of the Conservatives said on Sunday that the Labour party had been weak in responding to recent strikes because it was too reliant on unions for funds ahead of an upcoming election.
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Cameron says government weak against unions
LONDON (Reuters) - The Conservative party has extended its opinion poll lead over the Labour party to eight points, which would make it the largest party in an upcoming election but with no overall majority.
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Tories extend opinion poll lead after budget
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Britain’s Victoria Pendleton won the women’s sprint at the world track cycling championships for the fourth time in a row and the fifth in six years on Saturday.
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Pendleton wins another world sprint title
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - England can provide the “most commercially successful World Cup ever” if they are chosen to host the 2018 edition, the country’s bid chief executive Andy Anson has told Reuters.
LONDON (Reuters) - Nineteen teenagers have been detained in connection with the fatal stabbing of a 15-year-old boy at a central London Tube station during the afternoon rush hour, police said on Saturday.
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Nineteen teenagers held over fatal Tube stabbing
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on March 15 he would stay on as leader of the Labour Party even if it fails to win a majority at an election expected in May.
LONDON (Reuters) - British Airways cabin crew begin a four-day strike on Saturday, the second walkout this month that will cost the company millions of dollars and lead to more travel chaos before the busy Easter holiday period.
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BA cabin crew set to strike again
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown would keep Alistair Darling in his position of chancellor if the Labour Party wins the upcoming election, he said in an interview published on Saturday.
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Brown says no change of chancellor after election
LONDON (Reuters) - A hedge fund trader among seven men arrested as part of Britain’s biggest swoop on an insider trading ring said he was innocent on Friday as the probe shone an unwelcome light on several banks and listed companies.
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Insider trading suspect denies wrongdoing
LONDON (Reuters) - Julian Rifat, the hedge-fund trader at the centre of a major insider-dealing probe, said via his lawyers that he was innocent and “deeply distressed” by the allegations levelled at him.
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Moore’s Rifat, in FSA probe, denies insider dealing
LONDON (Reuters) - Entertainment retailer HMV is targeting earnings growth over the medium term by increasing sales of new products in music, visual and games and raising its presence in live music and ticketing.
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HMV targets new products, live music market
LONDON (Reuters) - Business investment in Britain fell 4.3 percent between October and December 2009 compared with the previous three months, giving a record 23.5 percent annual drop, official data showed on Friday.
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Q4 business investment suffers record fall
LONDON (Reuters) - British Airways Plc Chief Executive Willie Walsh said on Friday he was ready to meet unions to discuss a dispute with cabin crew but had no plans to do so before a four-day strike begins on Saturday.
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BA’s Walsh has no plans to meet union
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Independent News & Media (INM) agreed to pay Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev 9.25 million pounds to take its loss-making newspaper The Independent off its hands.
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INM sells Independent to Russian billionaire
LONDON (Reuters) - The famous British “stiff upper lip” has become a thing of the past, according to a survey on Thursday which found Britons are no longer embarrassed to shed a tear or be affectionate in public.
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British "stiff upper lip" a thing of the past
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain’s greenhouse gas emissions fell 8.6 percent in 2009 from the previous year due to less energy demand, the Department of Energy and Climate Change said on Thursday.
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UK greenhouse gas emissions fall 8.6 percent
LONDON (Reuters) - The Conservatives still lag Labour in crucial marginal constituencies they must win to secure a clearcut election victory, according to a poll commissioned by Reuters.
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Conservatives still lag in seats they must win
LONDON (Reuters) - Retail sales bounced back in February after a dismal January, helped by a record increase in household goods sales, official data showed on Thursday.
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Retail sales bounce back in February
LONDON (Reuters) - Kingfisher, Europe’s No.1 home improvements retailer, beat profit forecasts and hiked its dividend and spending plans, saying cost cuts and business improvements would help it to keep winning in tough markets.
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Kingfisher profit jumps
LONDON/PARIS (Reuters) - Terry Robinson is about three-quarters of the way through his second apprenticeship. His first, when he was 15, was as a carpenter and joiner: now he’s building the skills to attain supervisor status in retail.
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From the age of labour to the labour of age
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain needs to increase its efforts to adapt infrastructure and homes to cope with the effects of climate change, a UK parliamentary committee said on Thursday.
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UK must adapt better to face climate change
LONDON (Reuters) - Six men, including senior professionals in London and a hedge fund employee, have been arrested in Britain on suspicion of being involved in a sophisticated and long-running insider-dealing ring.
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Six insider dealing suspects arrested in UK
LONDON (Reuters) - Annual consumer price inflation slowed last month for the first time since September, dropping more than expected after favourable base effects and a fall in the prices of games and toys, data showed on Tuesday.
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Inflation slows more than expected in February
LONDON (Reuters) - Government-owned banks’ target for lending to businesses will be measured in gross terms from April, to reflect the fact that many companies are paying down their debt, a government source said on Monday.
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Govt-owned banks to get gross lending target
LONDON (Reuters) - The government said on Monday it had agreed with the U.S.
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UK to buy Boeing reconnaissance planes
LONDON (Reuters) - Chancellor Alistair Darling said on Sunday there was no question of any pre-election giveaways in next week’s budget.
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Darling says no pre-election giveaways in budget
LONDON (Reuters) - Norway striker John Carew scored twice as Aston Villa came from behind to salvage a point from a lively 2-2 draw at home to midlands rivals Wolverhampton Wanderers in the Premier League on Saturday.
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Carew double salvages point for Villa against Wolves
LONDON (Reuters) - Bailed out lender Lloyds Banking Group said it would return to profitability in 2010 after two years of heavy losses, helped by lower than expected bad debts and tight cost controls.
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Lloyds says to return to profit in 2010
LONDON (Reuters) - Most English universities are facing real-term budget cuts this year, after a government funding body announced details of a half billion pound reduction in support on Thursday.
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University cuts announced as recession bites
LONDON (Reuters) - Unemployment will stand at 1.74 million at the end of the year, well below the government’s December estimate, independent forecasts gathered by the Treasury showed on Wednesday.
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Report predicts lower unemployment
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Wednesday he believed a deal was still possible to prevent a planned British Airways cabin crew strike at the weekend.
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Brown says deal to avert BA strike possible
LONDON (Reuters) - Any delay in tackling Britain’s ballooning deficit risks undermining the country’s credibility, Conservatives said on Monday, drawing an electoral battle line ahead of the Labour government’s March 24 budget.
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Spending must be cut fast - Osborne
LONDON (Reuters) - Upmarket retailer Liberty is selling its distinctive mock Tudor department store building in London’s West End for 41.5 million pounds to pay off debt, it said on Monday.
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Liberty in sale-leaseback of flagship store
LONDON (Reuters) - The government announced new rights for credit card users on Monday that it says will save consumers millions of pounds and give them more control over their finances.
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New rights for credit card holders unveiled
LONDON (Reuters) - Transport Secretary Andrew Adonis urged cabin crew at British Airways on Sunday to call off their planned strikes this month, saying it threatened the company’s very existence.
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Crew strike threatens BA’s future
LONDON (Reuters) - British Transport Secretary Andrew Adonis urged cabin crew at British Airways on to call off their planned strikes this month, saying it threatened the company’s very existence.
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Crew strike threatens BA’s future-Transport minister
LONDON (Reuters) - Plastic bags advertised as degradable and sold in many supermarkets may not be as environmentally friendly as thought, according to a study.
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Study warns on "biodegradable" plastic bags
LONDON (Reuters) - British Airways cabin crew will walk out for seven days later this month after talks between the airline and labour unions aimed at averting a strike broke down, dealing a fresh blow to the loss-making carrier.
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BA cabin crew to strike for seven days this month
LONDON (Reuters) - Teachers in England should not be banned from being members of the far-right British National Party or any organisation which promotes racism, according to an independent report published on Friday.
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Teachers "should not be banned from the BNP"
LONDON (Reuters) - Art history has been less than kind to Paul Sandby, an 18th century British painter whose name was eclipsed by contemporaries like Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds.
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Show focuses on "neglected" British painter Sandby
STAINES, England (Reuters) - A son of Ghanaian immigrants who was educated at Eton, parliamentary candidate Kwasi Kwarteng embodies both change and continuity in the Conservative Party.
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Old and new converge in the rising Tories
LONDON (Reuters) - An online opinion poll has shown the Conservatives well ahead of Labour and on course for election victory, contrasting with other surveys showing the race too close to call.
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Online poll puts Tories on course for win
LONDON (Reuters) - Liberty, owner of the iconic London department store, said it was in the early stages of takeover talks with suitors and that it continued to trade well in 2010.
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Liberty in takeover talks
LONDON (Reuters) - Computer expert Peter Moore, held captive in Iraq for 2-1/2 years until his release in December, has said he was tortured and subjected to mock executions by a well-trained kidnap gang.
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British hostage endured mock executions in Iraq
LONDON (Reuters) - Workers from the RMT union have backed strike action in a dispute with Network Rail over its plans to cut 1,500 maintenance jobs.
LONDON (Reuters) - A former partner at blue-blood stockbroker Cazenove was found guilty of insider dealing on Wednesday, after making over 100,000 pounds on a series of takeover deals over two years.
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Ex-Cazenove partner guilty of insider dealing
LONDON (Reuters) - EMI Music, which is seeking new funds to avoid breaching debt covenants, said Chief Executive Elio Leoni-Sceti would step down shortly, just a month after he was tasked with finding a new business plan.
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Ex-ITV boss takes over at EMI Music
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain wants to force banks to reveal how many of their staff get high pay packages, in steps that go further than previous proposals, financial services minister Paul Myners said on Wednesday.
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UK proposes tougher steps on disclosing bankers’ pay
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Wednesday he believed Britain would maintain its coveted top credit rating and announced a pay freeze for top civil servants to help tame a record deficit.
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Brown says UK to maintain triple AAA credit rating
LONDON (Reuters) - Chancellor Alistair Darling will deliver the budget at 12:30 p.m.
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Budget to be delivered on March 24
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain’s biggest export fall in more than three years and lacklustre retail and house price surveys cast doubt on the strength of economic recovery on Tuesday, the day after a Bank of England policymaker warned of a bumpy outlook.
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Dire exports casts doubt on recovery outlook
LONDON (Reuters) - British house prices grew last month at their slowest pace since August after the amount of new property coming on to the market grew faster than the number of new buyers, a survey indicated on Tuesday.
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House price balance sees surprise Feb fall
LONDON (Reuters) - An Oxford hospital has suspended child cardiac surgery pending the results of an external investigation into the deaths of four children over the past three months.
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Hospital suspends heart surgery after child deaths
LONDON (Reuters) - Consumer confidence hit its highest in two years in February and people were their most optimistic about the coming six months since records began, a survey showed on Wednesday. The Nationwide Building Society’s consumer confidence index rose 6 points to 80 in February, almost double what it was a year ago and the highest since January 2008.
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Consumer confidence at 2-year high
LONDON (Reuters) - The number of people placed in permanent jobs in Britain rose in February at its fastest pace since July 2007 while salaries rose at the fastest pace in almost two years, a survey showed on Wednesday.
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Job market shows further improvement
LONDON (Reuters) - Households will be able to take out soft loans to improve the efficiency of their homes from 2013, repaying these from energy savings made, the government said on Tuesday.
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Britain announces soft loans for home efficiency
BRIGHTON, England (Reuters) - Conservatives would announce cuts in corporation tax and small companies tax in an emergency budget if elected this year, economics spokesman George Osborne said on Saturday.
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Opposition would cut company tax
LONDON (Reuters) - A Conservative government would cut the corporate tax rate to 25 percent from 28 percent as part of an emergency budget focussed on enterprise, the Daily Telegraph reported on its website on Friday.
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Conservatives would cut corporate tax
LONDON (Reuters) - The Office of Fair Trade accused consumer goods group Reckitt Benckiser of abusing its dominant market position in the supply of heartburn medicines, adding to the cost of drugs to the National Health Service (NHS).
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Reckitt abuses Gaviscon dominance - OFT
LONDON (Reuters) - The opposition Liberal Democrats will challenge the government on Tuesday to reveal how much money part-nationalised Royal Bank of Scotland and rival Lloyds have lent since a state bailout 12 months ago.
LONDON (Reuters) - Chancellor Alistair Darling will publish a tax framework on Monday as he attempts to provide greater certainty for businesses on how the government develops its taxation policy.
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Darling sheds light on tax policy
LONDON (Reuters) - Business Secretary Peter Mandelson said on Monday he expected no more surprises this year on public borrowing and that the UK borrowing requirement for the year as a whole would come within the forecast level.
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Mandelson expects no more borrowing surprises
LONDON (Reuters) - Airport operator BAA said on Monday it expected to see a modest recovery in passenger traffic volumes in 2010 but warned the industry as a whole faced further economic challenges.
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BAA sees passenger recovery in 2010
LONDON (Reuters) - German car maker BMW is set to announce a deal on Monday to offload 3 billion pounds of longevity risks from its UK pension scheme to Deutsche Bank, the Financial Times reported.
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BMW to offload pension liabilities
LONDON (Reuters) - Chancellor Alistair Darling will publish a tax framework on Monday as he attempts to provide greater certainty for businesses on how the government develops its taxation policy.
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Darling sheds light on tax policy for business
LONDON (Reuters) - Housing completions in England fell by almost a fifth in 2009, government figures showed on Thursday, taking them to less than half the level economists say is needed to keep up with demand.
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Housebuilding in England hits lowest since 1946
LONDON (Reuters) - The government posted its first ever budget deficit for the month of January this year, a worse than expected result for a Labour government struggling to pacify debt-wary markets ahead of an election it is tipped to lose.
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Government borrowing up in usual surplus month
LONDON (Reuters) - Public finances turned out much worse than expected in January as government spending shot up and tax receipts fell sharply, the Office for National Statistics said on Thursday.
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January public finances deteriorate sharply