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Barnardo's blasts Provident for profits rise
Posted on July 28, 2009
Barnardo's said that Provident, one of the biggest home credit providers in the UK and Ireland, charged "extortionate" annual interest rates of up to 545 per cent to hard-up borrowers.
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You don’t mess with a goddess like Lumley
Posted on July 28, 2009
The saviour of the Gurkhas is just the latest in a line of women explorers who have won adulation in far-flung lands.
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BBC may broadcast educational programmes if swine flu shuts schools
Posted on July 28, 2009
The BBC could be forced to clear its schedules to make way for educational programming if a swine flu pandemic shuts schools.
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    From work ethic to workaholicism
    Posted on July 28, 2009
    On John Calvin's five-hundredth birthday, Para Mullan traces how work has come to be seen as a Bad Thing.
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    Relax your way to perfect health
    Posted on July 28, 2009
    Cutting-edge scientific research now proves what the yogis have always known: deep relaxation can have a profound effect on a wide range of medical conditions. Anastasia Stephens reports
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    The Sports report
    Posted on July 28, 2009
    Felipe Massa's Formula One future in jeopardy after Hungarian Grand Prix crash
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    Silver Power, the force that could save us: The British economy needs older workers
    Posted on July 28, 2009
    Vince Cable: After the magnificent Henry Allingham died last week aged 113, I was left with the thought: what is old?   
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    Hollywood calls — but only if your face fits
    Posted on July 28, 2009
    The film industry is being stalked by a new McCarthyism that is more dangerous for being so insidious
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    Charities chief Dame Suzi Leather earns more than the Prime Minister
    Posted on July 28, 2009
    Dame Suzi Leather, whose income from taxpayers has shot up in recent years, has an annual salary of almost £80,000 for a three-day week as chairman of the charity watchdog.
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    My misery as a tethered goat in Gordon Brown's big tent
    Posted on July 28, 2009
    I spent 15 months advising Brown and Straw on constitutional reform. What a waste of effort
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    How would you prosecute the PM?
    Posted on July 28, 2009
    Corinna Ferguson talks Zasta through the rare, and costly, route of bringing private prosecutions against breaches of criminal law.
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    Ryanair land grab comes at a cost
    Posted on July 28, 2009
    Even Ryanair is finding it hard to make a buck charging ₤1 – baggage excluded – to fly from London to Krakow.
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    Robert Fisk: Why does life in the Middle East remain rooted in the Middle Ages?
    Posted on July 28, 2009
    According to a UN report, the global improvement in living standards has passed much of the Arab world by. Why is the Arab world – let us speak with terrible sharpness – so backward? Why so many dictators, so few human rights, so much state security and torture, so terrible a literacy rate?
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    Gates in plea to Israel for 'patience' over Iran
    Posted on July 28, 2009
    US fears Israel may take military action over Iran's nuclear programme.
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    Families pay £1,800 a year too much as banks fail to pass on rate cuts in great mortgage rip-off
    Posted on July 28, 2009
    All the big lenders, including those saved from ruin by the taxpayer, are ramping up loan rates at the expense of families and businesses, a Daily Mail analysis has found.;
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    Voters turn against war in Afghanistan
    Posted on July 28, 2009
    A majority of the public believes that the war in Afghanistan is unwinnable and British troops should be pulled out immediately, a poll for The Independent has found.
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    MPs ignore public anger and give themselves £9,000 expenses deal by stealth
    Posted on July 28, 2009
    The Daily Telegraph can disclose that MPs have devised a new scheme allowing them to claim a £25-a-night “subsistence” allowance when staying away from their designated main home.
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    Migrants in Calais to be offered £1,700 cash and a free flight home
    Posted on July 28, 2009
    Migrants queuing up to enter Britain at Calais are to be offered over £1,700 in cash, a free flight home and retraining when they get there.
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