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Ed Miliband warns Google I’d make you pay more tax
Google is betraying its founding principles by going to extraordinary lengths to avoid paying taxes in Britain, Ed Miliband will tell the company's chairman ...
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600 interpreters will be allowed to move to UK as reward for assisting British forces in Afghanistan
About 600 Afghan interpreters that put themselves in danger for British forces are to be given settlement rights in the UK, it was ...
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Headteachers told choose highly paid staff or smaller classes in your schools
Headteachers may face a difficult balancing act between improved wages for their staff or smaller classes for their pupils, Ofsted's chief inspector ...
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Dow Jones industrial average posts 22nd high of the year
Federal Reserve presidents and sent the Dow Jones industrial average to its 22nd high of the year Tuesday. Regional Fed Presidents James Bullard ...
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Injured Carroll Ruled Out of England Friendlies
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IMF urges Treasury to speed up sale of Lloyds and RBS
Lloyds Banking Group was escalating on Tuesday night amid reports that the International Monetary Fund is urging the Treasury to accelerate its disposal of the 65bn stakes in the two bailed-out banks.As part of its annual health check on the UK economy, the Washington-based fund is said to be telling the government that disposal of the share stakes should be a priority.Hopes of a sell-off of the ...
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Andy Carroll ruled out of England friendlies through injury
Andy Carroll's withdrawal for the friendlies against Republic of Ireland and Brazil was confirmed in an FA statement. Photograph: Jan Kruger/The FA via Getty ...
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Hugh Muirs diary The anti-gay marriage MP who raced against time. And lost
Gay marriage is a worry for Lord Tebbit. We might see a "lesbian queen giving birth to a future monarch by artificial insemination". Photograph: Dan Chung for the ...
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Some Afghan interpreters to be allowed to settle in Britain
About half the Afghan interpreters risking their lives for British troops are to be given settlement rights in the UK under a reworked package prepared by the coalition government.The package represents a climbdown from earlier suggestions that most interpreters would have to risk reprisals as collaborators by the Taliban after coalition forces leave a still unstable country at the end of ...
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A Guide for Game Hunting in Englands Premier League
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, England ...
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Council gets new Mayor
By Bruce Thain Harrow Borough Council has appointed a new mayor despite tensions during the ceremony this evening. Councillor Nana Asante was sworn in as mayor of the borough for the Municipal Year of 2013/2014 at a meeting at the civic centre. However during the evening members of the Labour group did not participate in the meeting due to tensions over the appointment of the ...
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Job security is a thing of the past - so millions need a better welfare system | Guy Standing
Skills and Employment Survey , published on Monday? The national survey, carried out every six years, shows that more employees feel insecure than at any time in 20 years; that work is being intensified, with people being asked to do more and work longer; and that for the first time people working in the public sector feel more insecure than those in the private sector.The reasons for this are ...
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Bipolar pregnant woman tells court I’ll kill myself if I’m denied an abortion
A pregnant woman with severe mental health problems told a High Court judge that she would kill herself and her unborn daughter if he did not allow her to have an ...
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Disarray as DPP contradicts new guidance on naming of suspects
Controversial plans to protect the identity of suspects arrested by police were in disarray last night after the Director of Public Prosecutions called for more "wriggle room" to name suspects before they were ...
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Reforms to teachers’ pay ‘will mean bigger class sizes’
Children will face larger class sizes as a result of the plan to let heads award higher pay rises to good teachers, the chief schools inspector has ...
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Boris Johnson The flawed Mayor of London
Boris Johnson's 'recklessness' about pregnancy and the feelings of others when committing 'extramarital adulterous liaisons' raises questions about his fitness for public office. That was the conclusion of an extraordinary judgment by the Appeal Court this week: that his 'reckless' attitude to the women and children involved is a matter of public interest that ...
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Donald Macintyres Sketch If the Tory beast needs red meat call for Chris Grayling
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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Carney agrees with King Bank of England not a one-man show
MONTREAL, May 21 (Reuters) - The next head of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, agreed on Tuesday with current Governor Mervyn King that the British central bank could not be run as a one-man ...
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Rightwing Tory rebels call on peers to reject gay marriage bill
House of Lords to reject the bill after 133 Tory MPs, including two cabinet ministers, defied David Cameron to vote against the measure.As a Tory grassroots organisation warned of a "civil war in conservatism", prompted in part by the legislation, more than half of the Conservative parliamentary party voted against the bill after one ministerial aide complained of a "sham ...
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Artists criticise war centenary plan
first world war has been attacked by a group of actors, writers and campaigners including Jude Law and Michael Morpurgo, author of the children's novel War Horse which is set during the conflict.Promising a "truly national commemoration", the prime ...
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Letters Remembering war to promote peace
first world war . Far from being a "war to end all wars" or a "victory for democracy", this was a military disaster and a human catastrophe.We are disturbed, therefore, ...
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Abdel Hakim Belhaj torture case may be heard in secret court
One of the first cases to be heard by the government's new generation of secret courts may be a claim brought by a Libyan dissident who was kidnapped along with his pregnant wife and flown to one ...
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Andy McSmiths Diary Listen children the world really was created in seven days
Andy McSmith is a senior reporter at The Independent. He has vast experience in political journalism and has also appeared on documentaries for BBC Radio ...
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FTSE 100 within sight of all-time high
The London stock market is within sight of its all-time closing high after another surge in share prices on Tuesday.After drifting for much of the day, the FTSE 100 index of Britain's top companies made a late rally to close 48.24 points higher at 6803.87. This marked its best level for more than 13 years and left the index just 130 points below the peak reached on 30 December 1999 at the ...
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Maria Stubbings was killed by one man. The question is who let it happen | Julie Bindel
let down by the police who could have done more to keep her safe, but didn't. Maria Stubbings is dead and, it would seem, not much has changed since I began campaigning on this issue over three decades ago. The statistics are consistent, year after year: on average, two women die each week in England and Wales as a result of domestic violence, a number etched into the minds of those of us ...
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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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