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Bank of Englands King makes last call for more stimulus bank reform
Reuters © Governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King speaks to employees during the opening of the Prudential Regulation Authority, in central London April 2, 2013. REUTERS/Lefteris ...
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Britain to start sale of Lloyds soon review RBS split
By Matt Scuffham and David MillikenLONDON (Reuters) - Britain is ready to start selling its shares in Lloyds Banking Group and will examine whether to break up Royal Bank of Scotland, Chancellor George Osborne said, admitting the re-privatisation of RBS remains a long way off.The government is keen to show Britain's part-nationalised banks are recovering from the 2008 financial crisis and a ...
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Donna Hartley-Wass funeral Olympics star who died while sunbathing laid to rest
Olympics golden girl Donna Hartley-Wass was today described as "everyone's star" at her funeral.More than 200 mourners paid their respects to the 58-year-old former 400m runner, who died suddenly while sunbathing in her garden on June 7.Her husband of 26 years, ex-Emmerdale actor Bobby Knutt, 67, arrived at 1.30pm for a service then burial at Holy Trinity Church in Wentworth, ...
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Charlie Kelsey-Neil inquest Fan of magician Dynamo accidentally hanged himself in bedroom
A schoolboy fan of street magician Dynamo accidentally hanged himself in his bedroom, an inquest heard.Charlie Kelsey-Neil, 12, who had ADHD, spent hours watching the star's TV shows and was interested in knots.He was found unconscious by a younger sibling after the pair had an argument.Mum Caroline, 31, and stepdad Jovan Neil, 26, tried to revive Charlie but he was pronounced dead later ...
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Cat gets bone tissue transplant to walk again through pet donor card scheme
A cat whose leg was broken in five places when he was run over by a car is walking again - thanks to a bone tissue transplant. Since the operation to screw two-year-old tabby Burt's thigh back together using soft bone tissue from another cat, he has only been allowed out on a harness. But he will get his freedom back when the screws are removed next week. Professor John Innes said: ...
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Moors Murderer Ian Brady chronically psychotic and has experienced talking to Laurel and Hardy and Cilla Black
Moors Murderer Ian Brady is "chronically psychotic" and could start having hallucinations if he leaves hospital for jail, his mental health tribunal heard today.The child killer suffers from long-term paranoid schizophrenia which does not "just fade away and die", according to the clinician in charge of his care at high security Ashworth Hospital.Brady, 75, was constantly ...
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Royal Mail workers vote to boycott handling competitors mail
Government plans to privatise the Royal Mail could be hit after a boycott by thousands of postal workers moved a step closer today.Up to 26million items could go undelivered every day if a ban on handling letters from rival operators goes ahead.Members of the Communication Workers Union have voted overwhelmingly in favour of supporting action.Fearing the massive impact it would have, Royal Mail ...
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Tell Sid Public will be offered shares in Lloyds
The prospect of an eventual "tell Sid"-style sale of shares in Lloyds Bank was raised by George Osborne as he claimed Britain's economy had emerged from "intensive ...
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George Osborne ready to sell taxpayers stake in Lloyds Banking Group
Royal Bank of Scotland , in a move that could delay the bailed out bank's return to the private sector.In his annual speech to City grandees at Mansion House on Wednesday night, the chancellor said he was "actively considering options for share sales in Lloyds", in which the government has a 39% stake. Speculation is mounting that a partial sell-off of the state's Lloyds ...
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George Osbornes shift on bad bank model is welcome
George Osborne announced, the option of a good bank/bad bank split at RBS will be examined in detail. In any case, privatisation of RBS is "some way off", said Osborne, and Lloyds is top of the batting order for a sale of shares.What on earth is going on? Well, one thing is clear: the assembled forces of Lord Lawson and other members of the Banking Commission, the governor of the Bank ...
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Letters Our waste is a precious resource not something to be sent abroad
Norwegians turn Europe's trash into cash but fuel concern over the future of recycling , 15 June). Domestic recycling rates continue to improve and while most local authorities now collect plastic bottles at the kerbside, some waste companies are still sending huge volumes of this plastic resource abroad rather than having it processed here. This is supported by the incentives they receive ...
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Country diary Middleton-in-Teesdale Co Durham On the trail of the double dumplings
plants we'd really come to see were "double dumplings", the old dales name for globe flowers that I first became aware of as a child, when collecting picture cards was a popular pastime. In 1959, Brooke Bond tea distributed a series ...
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British court says dead soldiers’ families can sue government
UK -- Families of soldiers killed in combat may sue the government for damages, Britain's highest court ruled Wednesday in a surprising decision that may have profound consequences for future military operations. The Supreme Court found that soldiers in foreign combat zones are covered by human rights legislation, and that the Defense Ministry has a duty to care for its soldiers that makes ...
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Housing Minister Receives British Director General and Chief Executive Of Ordnance Survey
Manama, June 19 (BNA)-- Housing Minister Bassim bin Yaqoob Al Hamar received today Director General and Chief Executive of the Ordnance Survey and adviser to the British Government Vanessa Lawrence. They discussed historic bilateral relations and ways of bolstering them as well as means of boosting cooperation between the Housing Ministry and the Ordnance Survey. A O Q BNA 1740 GMT ...
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Donald Macintyres Sketch David Cameron can be choosy about who he invites to dinner
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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Senior judges criticise Governments use of secret courts
The most senior judges in the land issued a damning indictment of the Government's policy on secret courts, accusing it of requesting unnecessary closed ...
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Andy McSmiths Diary When Prior knowledge appeared to be lacking
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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Chancellor Unveils Plan For State-Owned Banks
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls has said the review into the future of RBS is welcome but the Government must look at all options, including splitting it ...
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Met asked to investigate NHS regulator after Morecambe Bay trust report
Police have been asked to investigate allegations of a cover-up at the Care Quality Commission, stemming from the health regulator's failure to investigate an alarming rise in deaths in Morecambe ...
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Fans protest over high Premier League ticket prices – video
Demonstrators protest outside the Premier League headquarters in London on Wednesday , against what they deem as excessively high ticket prices in for teams in England's top flight division. The average price for tickets to Premier League football games has increased this year. They are more expensive than the Bundesliga and La Liga with only the Serie A being more ...
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Syria crisis needs political solution David Cameron tells MPs
Syria , putting his strongest emphasis yet on a political solution to the crisis as he came under pressure from his own backbenchers and Labour not to supply weapons to the Syrian rebels.Cameron was reporting back to the Commons from ...
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Thomas Heatherwick accused of plagiarism over Olympic cauldron
Thomas Heatherwick's Olympic cauldron (left) and the concept the New York design studio Atopia submitted to Locog in 2007. Photograph: Getty ...
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Rail passengers think train companies failing to provide value for money
Rail passengers think trains are failing to provide good value for money with less than one in five on one major route happy with their fares, a survey reveals. And overall satisfaction has dipped from last year as passengers faced inflation-busting fares rises. On value for money, Greater Anglia and the Stansted Express - the capital to airport shuttle - was given a satisfaction rating of ...
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Tony Blair urges Western governments to intervene in Syria
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair today urged Western governments to intervene in Syria. Mr Blair, speaking in Israel, said the "predominant emotion" was to stay out of the civil war. But he warned that the cost of staying out may be higher than getting involved. Mr Blair said the situation was one of many "ugly choices" facing world leaders, including on Iran's ...
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Obamas in Berlin Michelle and daughters visit Holocaust memorial while Barack calls for nuclear weapons cuts
US President Barack Obama's wife Michelle laid flowers today during a sombre visit to the Holocaust memorial in Berlin. America's First Lady was joined by daughters Malia, 14, and Sasha, 12, as well as the president's half sister Auma. The Obamas are spending two days in Germany and Michelle took their daughters and Auma while Obama was in talks with the country's leader ...
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London bike sharing a success
London in July of 2010 became one of over 44 cities in the world to introduce an aspect of communal consumerism into its public transport system with the implementation of a bike-sharing network and just ten weeks later had recorded over 1 million trips taken, proving the initiative to be feasible and sustainable.
Bike-sharing has been around since as early as the 1960s when the first community bike-sharing scheme was introduced in the Netherlands, but it lacked formal sharing systems and was overly-reliant on the good nature of the public, leading to mass theft, which ultimately destroyed the system. Read more
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