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Darling forced to delay pension boost

Andrew Grice: Blow to Chancellor on day of pre-Budget report as poll shows businessmen remain gloomy on economy

Prince Charles paid back £2,744.34 on 4 December 2007

Excuse me officer, can you lend one £3,000?

Mark Hughes: Royal Family repays Scotland Yard after Prince of Wales's protection officers put 'travel expenses' on Met Police account

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Mark Steel: We have 10 days left to stop X Factor from creating another putrid Christmas number one

Mark Blanco was trying to convince Pete Doherty, pictured, to go to a play in which he was starring

'Doherty and his cronies were in some way culpable'

Kevin Rawlinson: Sheila Blanco is determined to prove that her son Mark was pushed to his death

Critics round on Hague over trip to corrupt isles

Andy McSmith: Shadow Foreign Secretary refuses to disclose reason for his visit to Turks and Caicos

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Justine Henin had said her decision to quit tennis was final but the Belgian will be back in competitive action in the new year

Justine Henin: 'I was alone. I didn't know who I was any more'

In her first interview since deciding to return to the tour, the former world No 1 tells Paul Newman in Limelette that exhaustion drove her away but that her love of tennis – and that missing Wimbledon title – lured her back.

Bob Diamond: 'Financial capital and human capital are mobile'

Barclays boss warns of exodus of the bankers

The president of Britain's second largest bank has issued a veiled threat that the country's elite financiers could join a mass exodus from the City of London if the Government pushes ahead with a bonus supertax today.

The top five security trends of the next decade: hackers to 'resemble drug cartels'

According to new research, the future generation of computer data security companies will have to protect consumers from the industrialisation of hacking, identity theft and an increasing amount of attacks carried out on social networking sites.

Teacher Esiet Haileselassie and pupils using the equipment donated by Computer Aid International at Eweket Leheberele High School

Independent Appeal: Whole new world is just a click away for children of Ethiopia

Computer Aid International, one of our appeal charities, is transforming lives in Africa by providing schools with PCs. Paul Vallely reports from Addis Ababa.

Swine flu damage reaches deep into lungs

Swine flu damages the entire airway, from the trachea to deep in the lungs, just as the viruses that caused the deadly 1918 and 1957 influenza pandemics did, but unlike seasonal flu, a report said Tuesday.

part of Rue La La's current Christmas offering

This week's top fashion web sales: Christmas gifts for everyone

Almost all major sample sale sites have added special Christmas sections to their offer now, with some of them -- such as Rue La La -- even posting selections of 'fool-proof' gifts for 'him' and 'her.' As for discounted designer fashion, this week holds sales by Rodarte, Thakoon, and Valentino.

Jones as Blanche Hunt, left, with Anne Kirkbride as her daughter Deirdre, in a 1974 episode of 'Coronation Street'

Maggie Jones: Actress best known for her role as the harridan Blanche Hunt in 'Coronation Street'

Maggie Jones, who has died at the age of 75, was for a decade the foremost British battleaxe of the television soap world as Coronation Street's acid-tongued Blanche Hunt.


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