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What The Sunday Papers Said
Monday 10 June 2013
Independent on Sunday: The UK needs national talent bank
Gerhard Richter painting sells for $37m setting new record for a work by a living artist
Wednesday 15 May 2013
A 1968 oil painting by German artist Gerhard Richter sold for $37 million (£24 million) at Sotheby's contemporary art auction - a new record for a work by a living artist.
Graffitied pigs and buckets of blood on the streets of Nairobi as protests over MPs' pay continue
Tuesday 14 May 2013
Anger as lawmakers demand monthly rate of pay that is 131 times Kenya's minimum wage
Alan Milburn and Gillian Shephard: 'The Government must be judged by its actions, not words. Our job is to judge the actions'
Sunday 21 April 2013
Alan Milburn and Gillian Shephard make an unlikely team – but, they tell Andrew Grice, they both want ministers to do more on child poverty
Scandal of firms that dodge paying the minimum wage
Friday 19 April 2013
Although it is supposed to be illegal to pay staff below those levels, employers are using a variety of ruses to sidestep the rates
Government rejects 'freeze' calls and raises national minimum wage by nearly two per cent, with a new adult rate of £6.31
Monday 15 April 2013
Calls from business leaders to freeze the national minimum wage were rejected today by the Government which raised its level by nearly two per cent.
Watchdog calls for drastic changes in wake of police commissioner poll turnout fiasco
Tuesday 19 March 2013
Just one person in five believed they received enough information to cast an informed vote in last year’s ill-fated contests for the first Police and Crime Commissioners, the elections watchdog said today.
Rangers keep titles after 'witch-hunt'
Thursday 28 February 2013
Sir David Murray claims Rangers have been the victims of a "retrospective witch-hunt" after a Scottish Premier League-appointed commission found the oldco club guilty of making undisclosed payments to players.
Rangers will not be stripped of titles over undisclosed payments
Thursday 28 February 2013
Scottish club fined £250,000 following an investigation
£8 million a year? That’s modest, says RBS chief
Tuesday 12 February 2013
Fury as chairman of shamed bank defends CEO’s remuneration to MPs
Inconvenient People: lunacy, liberty and the mad-doctors in Victorian England, By Sarah Wise
Saturday 01 December 2012
A harrowing visit to the secure premises of 'The Retreat'
Ousted South Africa ANC youth leader Julius Malema blames police in mine deaths
Saturday 18 August 2012
Miners and their families welcomed expelled politician Julius Malema today as he told the thousands who gathered at the site where 34 miners were killed this week that South African police had no right to fire the live bullets that killed them.
Thousands 'put off by university tuition fees'
Thursday 09 August 2012
Thousands of students are being put off applying to university by the move to triple tuition fees to £9,000, an independent panel has found.
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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