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Still fancy the full English? Study links processed meats such as bacon and sausages to risk of early death
Thursday 07 March 2013
Study of half a million people across Europe suggests daily diet including equivalent to two sausages and a slice of bacon is linked to increased risk of dying young
Anthony Hilton: Too many pension schemes spoil the pots
Friday 18 January 2013
You can see where the Office of Fair Trading is coming from in launching an investigation this week into the charges levied on workplace pension schemes. There has been a raft of work by fund manager David Pitt-Watson and others which suggests that pension pots would be a third higher if charges in this country were at the same level as, for example, in Holland.
New year diet and gym resolutions are often a bad idea
Wednesday 16 January 2013
Surely a couple of sessions a week throughout the year rather than a daily grilling and diet for 31 days would be more beneficial?
Market Report: Kurdish black gold has Genel gushing
Tuesday 08 January 2013
Kurdistan and Iraq still can't agree on payments for oil exports, but that hasn't stopped Tony Hayward and Nat Rothschild's Genel Energy shipping black gold out of the country.
Some find inner peace in champagne, others in filing a tax return
Wednesday 02 January 2013
While most were topping up their glasses ready for a midnight toast, 160 Britons spent the hour after 11pm on New Year's Eve filing their tax return, according to HMRC.
It's never just one: Mark Hix makes easy canapés for New Year's Eve
Saturday 29 December 2012
These delicious, irresistible New Year’s Eve canapés are easy to make – with the help of our man in the kitchen. Just prepare for a stampede from your guests.
This Christmas let's celebrate the demise of a fixed television schedule
Friday 28 December 2012
Thanks to the cold weather and TV on demand, I've caught up on a whole year's worth of great (and not so great) Christmas TV
Christmas sales: It's the embattled sales assistants that I feel sorry for
Thursday 27 December 2012
Tis the season to spend time with the family - and fight others for that half price scarf in Next
There's food for thought in the festive fridge: How to make a meal from Christmas leftovers
Wednesday 26 December 2012
It pays to make a tasty meal out of leftovers
Soldiers serving in Afghanistan celebrated Christmas with traditional roast turkey lunch
Tuesday 25 December 2012
Around 9,000 servicemen and women are deployed in Helmand Province an
Christmas with the child soldiers
Monday 24 December 2012
Even as instability continues in the Central African Republic, Unicef are doing everything they can to give former child soldiers a proper Christmas day
Christmas: The one time of the year when an argument is fun
Monday 24 December 2012
It's Christmas and you know what that means...turkey, and arguments
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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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