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Bedroom tax prompts surge in pleas for council aid
bedroom tax ".More than 25,000 people applied for discretionary housing payments (DHP) to help cover their rent in April, compared with 5,700 in the same month last year, according to an analysis of 51 councils by the Independent.The government has substantially increased DHP funding for local authorities to help those most affected by the withdrawal of what ministers call the "spare ...
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Anderson bowls England back into first Test
England James Anderson took his 300th Test wicket and then ended a bold counter-attack by New Zealand's Ross Taylor as England fought back in the first Test at Lord's.The two players lit up a Lord's bathed in artificial floodlight to counter the overhead gloom of Friday's second day, which ended with New Zealand 4 for 153 in reply to England's first innings 232 - a ...
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Notes from a small island Is Sealand an independent micronation or an illegal fortress
We embarked from the Thames Estuary in the dead of night. This, I was assured, was in order to catch the tide, but it gave our journey a whiff of mystery. Soon we were swathed in fog, as seagulls rose from the surface of the water, ghostly in the light cast by our 45ft fishing boat, the Charlotte Joan.Four-and-a-half hours after we left, looming out of the darkness, there it was: the Independent ...
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Alexander Litvinenko widow accuses William Hague of sabotaging inquest
David Cameron , accusing them of sabotaging the inquest into her husband's murder and hiding the Russian state's role in his death.Marina Litvinenko said she was "utterly dismayed" ...
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England given boost with Chelsea willing to release trio from US tour
Chelsea's Frank Lampard celebrates winning the Europa League in Amsterdam and could captain England against the Republic of Ireland at Wembley. Photograph: Imago / Barcroft ...
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Alex McCarthy I never thought Id end season being picked for England
'I'm looking forward to the summer even more now,' says Alex McCarthy after his call-up to the England squad for the summer friendlies. Photograph: Alan Walter/Action ...
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Divided Europe veers between urgent growth and bleak austerity
Angela Merkel 's pro-austerity policies soon after becoming president in May last year, blamed the tough cutbacks regime imposed on troubled economies for much of Europe's economic problems. "What is hitting Europe is a recession provoked by the austerity policy," Hollande said at a Paris news conference. The president was especially keen to pin the blame on European ...
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Garden Roses Lavender Cocktails and Prince Harry Inside London’s Chelsea Flower Show
Replay It's officially in its 100th year--formally established in 2013--and yet the Royal Horticultural Society's Chelsea Flower Show, a fixture of the English social calendar, is as hot as ever. The sold-out ...
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Emotional moment as Englands James Anderson reaches 300-wicket landmark
New Zealand at Lord's on Friday. Kiwi opener Peter Fulton was Anderson's 300th wicket - making him only the fourth Englishman to reach the landmark alongside Fred Trueman, Bob Willis and Ian Botham. When Anderson's friend Graeme Swann held on to the catch low at second slip to complete Fulton's dismissal, New Zealand were seven for two on the second day of the first Test. ...
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The next coalition Why Ed Miliband needs to get Nick Cleggs number
A senior Labour MP has urged Ed Miliband to start preparing now for a possible coalition with the Liberal Democrats because it will be difficult for the party to win an overall majority in ...
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1000 pupils and rising – primary schools go supersize
Barclay primary school in Leyton, east London, already has 1,200 pupils, and is expanding to 1,600 from September 2014. Photograph: Felix Clay for the ...
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Exit Europe from the left | Bob Crow
movements in other countries that are critical of the EU are led by the left , in Britain they are dominated by the hard right, and working-class concerns are largely ignored.This is particularly strange when you consider that the EU is largely a Tory neoliberal project. Not only did the Conservative prime ...
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Multinationals and tax a bad smell | Editorial
Call it the smell test. When Google justifies paying minimal taxes in the UK because "no money changes hands" here, while admitting that up to 70% of its relevant ad revenues are handled by UK staff, then all may be legal - but something still doesn't smell right. When Amazon negotiates the deals in its Slough office, but gets the paperwork done in ...
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Tim Cooks pitch for a corporate tax holiday suits Washington just fine | Heidi Moore
Apple , is a perfect example. It's easy to imagine that Cook wouldn't have a free moment, and that he'd be busy at home in Cupertino, California, with a litany of troubles: the fears that Apple's glory is over; that innovation isn't on schedule; that major shareholders are selling out; and the persistent downward misery of the company's stock price, which ...
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Letters We need smaller and regional banks
PM raises prospect of 1980s-style sale of RBS , 16 May), losing the taxpayer some 24bn, exposes the government's priorities. He insists on cutting benefits by 18bn and expenditure on public services by another 81bn, with all the hardship that causes, yet for ideological reasons gratuitously empties the public coffers of 24bn.Why sell RBS at all? Private-sector dominance of the banks led to ...
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Letters Tax avoidance distorts the market
You do evil, MPs tell Google , 17 May) - they also give them a built-in competitive advantage, because the same dodges are not available to domestic competitors in the markets in which they make their money (such as the UK). So why not hit them using not tax law but the Competition Act? The companies in such groups are ostensibly trading at arm's length - otherwise HMRC would disallow the ...
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To encourage creativity Mr Gove you must first understand what it is | Ken Robinson
'An essential first step in being creative is to question your own way of looking at things perhaps Gove could start there.' Photograph: Bob ...
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Prince Harry Draws a Crowd at the Greenwich Polo Club
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Football without Fergie Unthinkable
the kindly, wise-cracking fatherly figure with an infectious laugh? Or the hair-trigger temper itching for confrontation? Ferguson's bluntness - for instance, calling Real Madrid ';that mob'; and saying ';I wouldn't sell them a virus'; - was like cool water for parched throats in a business whose stars so often say nothing of interest. His Jekyll and Hyde ...
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Yes the men of my fathers generation were better at being men | Ian Jack
Diane Abbott says the UK is facing a 'crisis of masculinity', with young men brought up on a diet of drugs and pornography, but it's a lack of love that really separates the ...
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People are told migrants stole their jobs – in truth bosses want cheap labour | Deborah Orr
Having a referendum on membership of the EU is a bit like having a referendum on membership of the moon's gravitational pull. You can vote to leave it all you like, but it will still be there, exerting the natural influence of its mass. Even China has EU regulations on its statute book, because it needs them to trade with Europe. The best that can be said of a possible withdrawal is that at ...
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Ultra-Orthodox in Israel protest military draft 8 arrested
Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem protested a proposal to remove their exemptions and draft them for the first time into military service. The protesters, estimated by various news sources as 15,000 to 30,000, gathered Thursday evening at a military recruiting office in an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Jerusalem. The demonstration included stones thrown at police and garbage cans ...
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Nigerian security troubles United Nations
Goodluck Jonathan this week declared a state of emergency for three northern states in response to threats from Islamist militant group Boko Haram. Militants suspected to be from Boko Haram killed more than 40 people in attacks on a village in northern Nigeria last week. At least 200 people died and more than 2,000 homes were destroyed in a recent military raid seen as a response to a Boko ...
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Russia warms to Syrian weapons investigation
Sergei Lavrov said Friday his government would do what it could to advance efforts to investigate claims of chemical weapons in Syria. Various sources said chemical weapons may have been used by both parties to the conflict in Syria. The BBC reported this week it has seen evidence Syrian forces dropped poisonous gas on civilian-populated areas last month. The Syrian government asked for a U.N. ...
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Just three members of Surrey GPs commissioning group to decide on proposals to downgrade Epsom Hospital
Just three members of Surrey's GP commissioning group will decide the fate of Epsom Hospital, after its governing body voted to delegate responsibility for voting on options to downgrade the hospital at a meeting attended by hundreds of people today. The decision at the meeting of the governing body of Surrey Downs Clinical Commissioning Group (SDCCG), which it decided to hold in ...
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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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