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Innocent people could have DNA records removed
Nearly a million innocent people could have records removed from the national DNA database after a human rights ruling.
Jeremy Warner: Sterling was far too high. Now it may be going the other way
Outlook: Jose Manuel Barroso, head of the European Commission, thinks Britain is “closer than ever before” to joining the euro and even claims to have had conversations with senior members of the UK Government to that effect. Meanwhile, Christine Lagarde, the French finance minister, would be more than happy to welcome us in.
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Market update - 4 December
The FTSE 100 was up 15.58 per cent or 4185.54 and the FTSE 250 gained 24.36 points at 5873.3 at 12:16 pm after the Bank of England bowed to calls from the market and reduced the UK’s benchmark interest rate to 2 per cent from 3 per cent.
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