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Bank of England remains divided on whether to continue with stimulus
LONDON--Bank of England policymakers remain divided on whether to provide more stimulus to the flat-lining economy, according to the minutes of their meeting in ...
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High Court rules that billionaire fraudster should lose three luxury properties
Kazakh businessman Mukhtar Ablyazov fled the UK on a Europe-bound coach last year after he was sentenced to 22 months imprisonment for contempt over failing to declare the full extent of his wealth.It is alleged that he embezzled more than $6bn during his time as chairman of BTA Bank between 2005 and 2009, which he denies. The bank is now pursuing Mr Ablyazov in the High Court over 11 separate ...
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Anonymity order lifted for triple child killer David McGreavy jailed in 1973
A sadistic killer, who murdered three children he was babysitting before impaling them on railings, could be given a new identity if the parole board agrees to transfer him to an open ...
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National archives Edward VIII’s phone calls - and how MI5 bugged them
Cahal Milmo is the chief reporter of The Independent and has been with the paper since 2000. He was born in London and previously worked at the Press Association news agency. He has reported on assignment at home and abroad, including Rwanda, Sudan and Burkina Faso, the phone hacking scandal and the London Olympics. In his spare time he is a keen runner and cyclist, and keeps an ...
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Rommel plot revealed Plan to assassinate the Desert Fox – and why MI6 abandoned it
Britain flirted with the idea of launching a wave of assassinations of senior Nazis, from Field Marshal Rommel to railway chiefs, to coincide with the D-Day landings, according to newly released ...
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Video Police statement on Woolwich
'Soldier beheaded' in street as two shot in suspected terrorist attack near Woolwich barracks - 'attacker' shown in video saying 'We will never stop fighting ...
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Google boss Eric Schmidt hits back at Ed Miliband and vows to invest in UK even if it has to pay more tax
Google will continue to invest in UK even if the company is forced by law to pay more tax, the company's chairman Eric Schmidt said yesterday, claiming "we love you guys too ...
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Man killed in deadly terror attack in London street
Link to video: Woolwich: suspect believed to be involved in attack Dramatic footage of the suspected terrorist attack near the Woolwich barracks today that left one man dead has emerged, showing a man with blood covered hands using jihadist rhetoric to justify the violence.Tonight the Prime Minister David Cameron vowed that Britain will "never buckle" in the face of terrorist ...
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Who dares to dodge Googles information tax | McKenzie Wark
'Facebook or Google's YouTube are not the culture industries so much as the vulture industries, taking an information surcharge from us while we amuse each other, and selling us to advertisers.' Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty ...
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UK and France to join global anti-corruption initiative
oil companies to reveal the taxes paid to national governments and the value of the minerals being extracted.Nearly 40 countries have already signed but the news that France and the UK have joined the initiative represents a breakthrough.The decision to join ...
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EU tax summit backs US-led drive to tackle banking secrecy
European leaders have thrown their weight behind a gathering international crackdown on tax evasion, backing US-led efforts to develop a new global template to combat banking secrecy.Amid mounting public outrage in Britain, France, Germany and Ireland over individual and corporate tax scandals, an EU summit pledged to clamp down through the sharing of information on the assets and gains of ...
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Bank of England remains split along familiar lines
The minutes of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting held on May 8 and 9, were released today and continued to reveal a story of a committee with the battle lines still drawn in the same ways as previously.The Dovish camp, The Governor, Paul Fisher and David Miles, would have liked to increase 'the stock of asset purchases financed by the issuance of central ...
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David Cameron stands firm on EU referendum date
David Cameron has issued a blunt warning to Conservative Eurosceptics that his "very clear, very decisive policy" to hold a referendum on Britain's EU membership by the end of 2017 is not up for renegotiation.In an attempt to draw a line under a bumpy few weeks in which Eurosceptics demanded a toughening of his policy and Tory traditionalists criticised him for pressing ahead with ...
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‘Soldier’ murdered in England
A man, who is understood to be a soldier, has been murdered by terrorists in England. Prime Minister David Cameron has called the attack "truly shocking".Eyewitnesses said the victim was hacked to death, with some suggesting his attackers tried to behead him, before charging at police when they arrived on the scene in Woolwich, south east London.The incident took place close to the ...
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Sent down at the Old Bailey A tour of the worlds most famous court
Few people these days get to see "dead man's walk" at the Old Bailey - where for hundreds of years convicts were led out to be executed outside on the site of the old Newgate Prison - and those that do give it little attention. Increasing numbers of workmen will soon begin passing through similarly hidden parts of the Central Criminal Court, however, as it begins a 37m ...
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MPs write to Privy Council to protest press industrys proposals for regulation
A majority of MPs on the House of Commons specialist media committee have written to the Privy Council to protest over the press industry's proposals for its future ...
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Man killed by two attackers in Woolwich – live updates
o Soldier killed, according to local MP Nick Raynsfordo Armed police shot two men 'carrying weapons'o Terrorist attack feared as Cobra emergency committee ...
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Brian Greenhoff former Manchester United and England defender dies
Greenhoff subsequently moved to Leeds United , where he stayed three years. He ended his career at Rochdale, where he was living after returning to England from Spain.A statement released to the Manchester Evening News by Greenhoff's family said: "We regret to inform of Brian's passing this morning, Wednesday 22nd May at the age of 60."Brian was a proud and much loved ...
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Andy McSmiths Diary Those hacked off Ukip councillors
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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Gay marriage opponents warn David Cameron of long battle ahead for Bill to become law
Opponents of gay marriage warned of a "long, protracted battle" ahead as they prepare for a last-ditch attempt by peers to scupper the ...
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Video Man beheaded in Woolwich
British driver was fascinating man whose epic duel with Niki Lauda in 1976 was typical of an era of glamour and glory - but also the ever-present threat of ...
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Soldier beheaded in suspected act of terrorism outside Woolwich barracks
The Government is reported to be treating it as a suspected terrorist incident. Mrs May tonight confirmed she has been briefed by the Director General of the Security Service MI5 and the Met commissioner Sir Barnard Hogan-Howe on the "sickening and barbaric'' incident in ...
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Surgeons fear online performance data will damage reputations
The leader of England's surgeons has warned that the imminent publication of data about individual performance could destroy careers and harm patients if it is wrongly interpreted.In his first interview on an issue that is causing considerable concern in the profession, Norman Williams, president of the Royal College of Surgeons, said they were facing "a watershed moment for us" ...
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BBC increases pay offer to lowest earners in bid to head off strikes
a potential summer of strikes by increasing its annual pay offer to its lowest-earning staff.Corporation bosses offered to increase its flat-rate rise to staff earning under 60,000 to 650, from 600, in a meeting with broadcasting unions on Tuesday.Broadcasting unions rejected the BBC's initial pay offer earlier this month and threatened further industrial action.Gerry Morrissey, the general ...
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Keane free to face England
Skipper Robbie Keane will be able to face England next week after the Los Angeles Galaxy granted him permission to join up with the Republic of Ireland squad.The 32-year-old striker was ruled out of the friendly clashes with Roy Hodgson's men at Wembley next Wednesday evening and Georgia at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin the following Sunday after the MLS club initially declined to release him ...
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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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