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David Bowie returns with sedate video for new single 'Valentine's Day'
Tuesday 16 July 2013
Legend takes a less controversial tone, after God-baiting video for 'The Next Day'
Open-plan offices affect employees' ability to concentrate, new study finds
Wednesday 26 June 2013
Workers who spend a lot of time on tasks requiring focus find them difficult to complete when too close to colleagues
Yahoo wrong to recall staff to office, says Regus chief
Wednesday 06 March 2013
Marissa Mayer, the chief executive of Yahoo, is "absolutely wrong" to tell her home workers to return to the office, according to Regus's chief executive Mark Dixon.
18 held after loyalist violence in Belfast
Saturday 05 January 2013
Eighteen people have been arrested after nine police officers were injured during the latest outburst of loyalist violence in Northern Ireland.
Police hunt for gang of ram-raiders who targeted cash machine
Sunday 16 December 2012
Police are on the hunt for a gang of ram-raiders after a stolen 4x4 smashed through a shop window in a quiet country town.
Rupert Cornwell: In 2012, Nixon would probably have got away with it
Sunday 17 June 2012
Out of America: Today is the 40th anniversary of Watergate. How would the US deal with the scandal now?
Diary: Disloyal subjects rail against Baron High-Speed of Camden
Saturday 09 June 2012
The Labour peer Andrew Adonis, aka Baron Adonis of Camden Town in the London Borough of Camden, was a Secretary of State for Transport who loved trains. He spent five days touring the country by train soon after his appointment. And he left behind a £33bn plan for a high-speed rail link from London to Birmingham, which survived the transition from a Labour to a Coalition government.
Scrap metal row murder pair jailed
Friday 09 March 2012
Two men were jailed for life today for killing an unemployed plumber who was beaten to death after cashing in stolen scrap metal for £105.
Candy brothers develop an appetite for Sugar Quay in swoop on City
Saturday 03 March 2012
The Candy brothers, the developers behind London's One Hyde Park flats for the super-rich, have turned their attentions to the City after swooping to buy the Sugar Quay site from administrators.
Canary Wharf spreads its wings to grow by a third
Thursday 19 January 2012
The landlord of Canary Wharf ushered in a new phase in the evolution of its sprawling estate today with a land deal which could eventually bring another 20,000 workers to London's Docklands.
Death fire fiance jailed for life
Tuesday 03 January 2012
A woman has been jailed for a minimum of 23 years after she murdered her fiance by locking him in a storeroom at his workplace and setting fire to the building.
Spotlight On... Celebrity jeweller, Theo Fennell
Friday 16 December 2011
Who is this bejewelled fellow?
Forget the picture of Rudolph, just print the postcode, says Royal Mail
Monday 12 December 2011
Dealer accused of smuggling guns faces US extradition
Thursday 01 December 2011
A British arms dealer can be extradited to the United States to stand trial for allegedly smuggling weapons, a court has ruled.
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- 2 Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
- 3 US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
- 4 Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
- 5 Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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