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More than 12,000 private shareholders have launched a potential £4 billion claim against Royal Bank of Scotland

RBS to axe 1,400 jobs in latest round of redundancies

Royal Bank of Scotland announced today that it is cutting 1,400 jobs in the latest round of redundancies since it was bailed out by the taxpayer.

International creditors predict Greece will return to growth in 2014

EU, ECB and IMF say the next slice of financial support will be released soon

The Business Matrix: Friday 12 April 2013

Jobless levels hit a record high

Mark Leftly: Andy Hornby should pick up the phone as a first step towards real repentance

Outlook "In the Abrahamic Bible that unites Christians, Jews and Muslims there are 2,350 verses on wealth and power and just 100 on sex," says Paul Moore. "So we know what God thinks."

Outlook worsens for Greek jobs

Greek unemployment hit a record 27.2 per cent in January, up from 25.7 per cent in December and 21.5 per cent a year ago, with unemployment in the 15-24 age group at 59.3 per cent.

Sunderland's new manager Paolo di Canio during his first match English Premiere League match in charge against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge

Paolo Di Canio attempting to unite team at Sunderland reveals Simon Mignolet

Italian replaced Martin O'Neill

So where were you when you heard Lady Thatcher had died? Lady who?

“Her shadow is very long,” someone said on the Huw Edwards special which took over the afternoon schedules – and if you’d been watching the rolling news coverage since the announcement of Baroness Thatcher’s death, you would have felt every inch of it.

The Business Matrix: Tuesday 9 April 2013

Time for austerity is over, warns Lew

A woman withdraws money from the ATM of a Laiki bank branch

Customers at Cyprus' biggest bank stung by 60% raid on savings

It is the latest attempt to meet the terms of the IMF/ECB bailout

A RAF plane lands today at the Akrotiri airbase on Cyprus

Ministry of Defence flies €1million in cash to Cyprus to help British troops and their families based on the crisis-hit island

RAF flight left earlier this afternoon, with the money onboard designated for emergency loans in the event that cash machines and debit cards stop working

Enough of this state ownership 'nonsense': Bank chief Sir Mervyn King calls for RBS split

Sir Mervyn King today called for the Royal Bank of Scotland to be split up and sold off within a year to end the “nonsense” of state ownership.

The News Matrix: Friday 1 March 2013

Missing Americans turn up at base

The News Matrix: Thursday 28 February 2013

Insurgent attacks are not decreasing

Match Report: Romelu Lukaku puts West Bromwich Albion back on track against Norwich City

West Bromwich Albion 2 Norwich City 1: Canaries feel aggrieved as on-loan Chelsea striker ends their 10-match unbeaten run

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A Palestinian fertility doctor has become an unlikely hero by helping women conceive – even though their husbands are in jail
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The story of Sir Mervyn King's reign at the Bank

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Zombie nation: Our enduring fascination with a world full of death and destruction

Zombie nation: Our fascination with death and destruction

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Martin Stephen: 'Ofsted says comprehensives are failing the most able but teaching bright children isn't rocket science'

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It doesn't take a selective system to nurture the best minds, says a former head of St Paul's boys' school.
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Can technology lure us back to the high street?

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Jenson Button: Downbeat driver cannot wait to put season behind him

Jenson Button: Downbeat driver cannot wait to put season behind him

McLaren man admits 'failed gamble' with car has left him pinning hopes on 2014 campaign
James Lawton: Firmer fist will be required to win Champions Trophy final battle with stouter foe

James Lawton

Firmer fist will be required to win Champions Trophy final battle with stouter foe
'To farm I have to rape the countryside. It’s got to be wrong': The true effect of the badger cull

The true effect of the badger cull

'To farm I have to rape the countryside. It’s got to be wrong'
Theatre review: Daniel Radcliffe gives an admirably honest performance in Michael Grandage's The Cripple of Inishmaan

First night: The Cripple of Inishmaan

Daniel Radcliffe gives an admirably honest performance in Michael Grandage's comedy
Girls Guides drop religious reference but pledge to self and the Queen

Guides drop religious reference but pledge to self and the Queen

After 103 years, organisation changes oath to welcome 'all girls, of all faiths, and none'
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Chris Froome: Free from 'pain in neck' after Bradley Wiggins' exit

Chris Froome: Free from 'pain in neck' after Wiggins' exit

Sky's lead rider says he is in fantastic form for the Tour and happy pecking order debate is over