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Tax rebate plan for 'green' drivers and homeowners
Andrew Grice:Pe-Budget report to include few giveaways as Chancellor promises to rein in budget deficit.
Inside News
Ofgem calls for new year cuts to home energy bills
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
Gas and electricity firms dispute regulator's analysis of profit margins
Somalis vent fury at militia after doctors massacred
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
Hundreds march against Al-Shabaab over suicide attack on graduates
UN warns of rising tensions as refugees flood into cities
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
Mass movement to urban centres is huge problem for developing countries, says UN
General Günther Rall: Luftwaffe fighter ace who helped create the modern German airforce
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
Günther Rall, a seasoned German fighter ace who was still only 23 years old, was told he would not walk again, yet he defied medical opinion to become one of the leading pilots of the Second World War and made an important contribution to developing the post-war German air force.
Independent Appeal: When ID cards are a precious gift
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
Andrew Buncombe: Charity scheme gives India's homeless an address and a bank account.
'Consumer confidence fragile' as retail sales growth slows
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
November numbers poor as Christmas period looms
David Prosser: Time to make the banks pay their share
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
Outlook: A tax on bankers' bonuses is not the best way to raise money or even to address public outrage
Five AIG executives in threat to quit over pay row
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
Anastasia Kelly. Rodney Martin. William Dooley. Nicholas Walsh. John Doyle. These are the five senior executives at AIG who threatened last week to quit the government-owned insurer if their compensation is cut by the Obama administration's pay tsar, sparking a new public furore in the US over bonuses at bailed-out companies.
City in uproar at plan for bonus 'supertax'
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
Treasury dismisses claims that new levy on payouts will drive bankers abroad
Ten Tors death: teacher 'ignored pleas'
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
Inquest into girl killed on Dartmoor told that hikers wanted expedition abandoned
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