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Food packaging traffic lights to signal healthy choices on salt fat and sugar
Research found consumers ignored food labels when more than one system was used, such as traffic lights and guideline daily amounts. Photo: Press ...
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Bosses of collapsed banks should be sent to jail Chancellor told
Britain's banking bosses should face jail if their decisions force fresh bailouts, the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards says ...
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Crackdown on political meddling in City watchdogs
The commission's call follows fears that ministers have in the past pushed regulators to go easy on the City, particularly when the Financial Services Authority used to boast of its "light touch" regulation in the years leading up to the financial crisis. The plan envisages that Mark Carney, the incoming governor, would report to the Treasury Select Committee. That breaks new ...
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Girls Guides drop religious reference but pledge to self and the Queen
For decades, Brownies and Girl Guides have promised to "love my God," and "serve the Queen and my country". But now, in a triumph for secularists, the organisation has decided to drop references to the deity - and the nation - from the oath taken by ...
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James Moore Reckless bosses must face the consequences
It is for the courts now to decide whether Mr Hayes is guilty or not, and I don't seek to make any comment on that. But there is a point to be made here. The CBI says those who involve themselves in fraudulent behaviour in the UK already face tough sanctions and enforcing those should be the focus of the authorities as opposed to the creation of new offences. The problem is, as the ...
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James Moore Why George Osborne must beware of the banking backlash
Outlook The blue touch paper has been lit and it might pay for George Osborne to consider a flak jacket when he delivers his Mansion House ...
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Tax fightback begins G8 leaders crack down on aggressive avoidance by multinational firms
David Cameron has hailed a landmark deal to rewrite global rules to stamp out tax evasion and stop companies shifting profits between countries to limit their tax ...
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Pearce pays price for England U21 flop
England's coach Stuart Pearce reacts during the 2013 UEFA U-21 Championship group A football match between England and Italy at Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv on June 5, 2013. Pearce's reign as England Under-21 coach came to an end on Tuesday as it was announced he would not be offered a new contract following the side's humiliating first round exit at the European championships ...
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Concerns raised at public meeting over football club move
By Bruce Thain More than 150 people discussed issues surrounding the move of Barnet FC to the Hive this evening. People living near the site in Camrose Avenue attended the meeting organised by MP Bob Blackman at Cannons High School. One of the key issues raised at the meeting was people's concerns over the playing of first team football on the site and the effect it would ...
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Guardian Posts Live Chat with Edward Snowden
published an interview with three former National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblowers: Thomas Drake, William Binney, and J. Kirk Wiebe. The testimony of each fully corroborates the details of the surveillance apparatus revealed recently by the latest defector from the Panopticon -- Edward Snowden. Not surprisingly, the shorter version of the tale told by the trio is: We told you so. The ...
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Hugh Muirs diary we know ciggies kill but who can resist a freebie
mission statement from the Department of Health . "There's also an impact on smokers' families: each year, hospitals see around 9,500 admissions of children with illnesses caused by secondhand smoke." We will do all we can, ministers say, to make "people aware of the health dangers of smoking". But too much hectoring and no play will always make Jack a dull boy, and ...
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Photos Mad hats at England’s Royal Ascot
TV presenter and conservationist Anneka Tanaka-Svenska wears a hat designed by Louis Mariette during the first day of Royal Ascot, in Berkshire, west of London, on June 18, 2013. The five-day meeting is one of the highlights of the horse racing calendar. Horse racing has been held at the famous Berkshire course since 1711 and tradition is a hallmark of the meeting. Top hats and tails remain ...
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Whitecaps’ Manneh suspended one game for collision with New England goalkeeper
Last Saturday, Banff mechanic Tim Bartlett was christening a new motorcycle through the Rocky Mountains when he had a rare wildlife encounter that was equal parts terrifying and ...
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Osborne and Cameron at G8 stylewatch
Forget tax and Syria, smart-casual is tough for these guys. Cameron demonstrated yet again that for him sleeves rolled up and no jacket semaphores getting down to ...
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Wind turbine to be built near Queen Mothers castle
A wind turbine is to be built near the Scottish home of the late Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother despite planning officials admitting that it will have an "unwelcome" visual ...
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Vladimir Putin may allow Assad to go if power vacuum in Syria is avoided
Vladimir Putin with G8 leaders. The Russian leader has agreed to let President Assad of Syria go on certain conditions. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/AFP/Getty ...
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England stun NZ in Junior World Cup semi
A controversial 74th minute try to Tom Smallbone has helped England stun NZ in this morning's Junior World Cup rugby semi-final in Vannes in France. England won 33-21 and were helped considerably by Smallbone's five pointer, which was awarded on video review by the TMO, from a ruck near the NZ line, despite no clear evidence of a try. Until then, NZ were well in the match, having ...
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William Hague 14-pint-sized politico
A 16-year-old William Hague addressing the Conservative party conference at Blackpool in 1977. Behind him is Margaret Thatcher. Photograph: Frank ...
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Spawning ground of deep-sea sharks found in Scotland
Marine scientists in Scotland say they've discovered a deep-sea shark spawning ground on the country's only inshore coral reef. Researchers from Edinburgh's Heriot-Watt University, who had discovered the reef itself, said they observed egg cases of the blackmouth catshark on the Mingulay Reef in the Outer Hebrides, the BBC reported Tuesday. Anglers in the area have long fished ...
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Undercover policing faces tighter regulation after Mark Kennedy scandal
Damian Green , the minister for policing, told MPs on Tuesday that under the plans to be brought before parliament the police spies would be deployed only following approval from an outside body.In a second reform, the use of the spies would only be authorised by chief constables. Previously, officers as junior as a superintendent had the power to deploy spies. The officers infiltrated political ...
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Letters The complex causes of underachievement
Underachievement in state schools 'creates moral and political danger' , 15 June) - as are the future bankers, tax avoiders, and benefit fraudsters (though he didn't mention these). He is also right that we should "address the needs of our poorest children", though he is wrong when he says: "It is an issue that can only be tackled by central government taking very ...
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Donald Macintyres Sketch Another startling fact about William Hague...
Donald Macintyre writes political sketches for The Independent, having been Jerusalem correspondent since 2004, covering Israel and the Occupied Territories, as well as travelling for the paper to Iraq, Turkey, Jordan, Libya and Egypt. As Political Editor and then Chief Political Commentator, he previously covered the John Major and early Tony Blair era. He has written for the Daily Express, ...
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Big ideas can be bad ideas – even in the age of the thinktank | Mark Mazower
Nudge : for years, it seems, big ideas have been heading our way across the Atlantic. It is hard to think of many similarly catchy slogans that have gone the other way of late - Tony Giddens' notion of ...
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ISPs to step up anti-abuse efforts
ISPs ), which were summoned by the culture secretary because of concerns in government that they are failing to take adequate steps to crack down on images of child abuse.The government estimates that there are 1 million unique users of images of child abuse online, but only 40,000 reports of illegal images are made each year to the IWF, the Cambridge-based charity that collates warnings about ...
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South Africa want to reverse the ball to swing it like England
AB de Villiers is prepared to give England the benefit of the doubt over accusations that the Champions Trophy hosts have been guilty of ball-tampering. Ashley Giles, ...
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Britain losing interest in leading?
Britain was once the most powerful country in the world, it ran an empire that was the envy of every other colonial power, and gave the world a number of modern institutions that are still widely used today, most notable in the realm of political systems and democratic checks and balances. But Britain today is a shadow of what it once was, some might say it is just another country, nothing special.
Perhaps it’s a little harsh to say there’s nothing special about the UK. The United Kingdom remains an influential country in international politics, especially throughout the Commonwealth, and the capital city, London, is headquarters to some of the world’s biggest companies and home to one of the largest stock exchanges in the world. Read more
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