Last updated: 3/21/2010 7:16:32 PM GMT

BA calls up 5,000 strike-breakers
Posted on March 21, 2010
BRITISH AIRWAYS is training 5,000 more staff to work as cabin crew after it claimed victory in the first round of its bitter industrial dispute yesterday.
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    "Would Madam like a nose job with her sandwich?"
    Posted on March 21, 2010
    Lunch-hour cosmetic surgery – 45-minute boob jabs, nonsurgical rhinoplasty – is booming in the UK. But nightmare stories are also on the rise. So are the treatments safe? We speak to doctors to find out, and take a front-row seat at a no-frills nose job
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    Treasury calls in Vince Cable for talks on implications of a hung parliament
    Posted on March 21, 2010
    Vince Cable has held unprecedented and detailed talks with the top official at the Treasury about the Liberal Democrats' economic policies – and declared himself willing to serve as chancellor after the next election.
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    British military intelligence 'ran renegade torture unit in Iraq'
    Posted on March 21, 2010
    Fresh evidence has emerged that British military intelligence ran a secret operation in Iraq which authorised degrading and unlawful treatment of prisoners. Documents reveal that prisoners were kept hooded for long periods in intense heat and deprived of sleep by defence intelligence officers. They also reveal that officers running the operation claimed to be answerable only "directly to London".
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    'Pay £5,000 a day and you can meet Tony': Four top Labour MPs trapped in TV sting
    Posted on March 21, 2010
    Labour has been plunged into a cash-for-access row after three former Cabinet Ministers were secretly filmed discussing how they could help a fake lobbying company – with one boasting that he was a ‘cab for hire’ for £5,000 a day.
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    Election 2010: Tony Blair to play key general election role
    Posted on March 21, 2010
    The former prime minister is to play a key role in Labour's election campaign with a brief to target David Cameron's "failure" to modernise the Conservatives.      
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    • Rise in marriages between cousins 'putting children at risk of birth defects', warns Baroness
    Posted on March 20, 2010
    A rise in the number of marriages between cousins in Britain has prompted calls for a crackdown on the practice amid warnings it is putting children's health at risk.
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    Builders and driving instructors among one in five workers caught in frenzy of paedophile vetting
    Posted on March 20, 2010
    Cleaners, prison officers, children’s football referees, weight loss instructors, opera singers and St John Ambulance volunteers are also among the nine million who must pass a new vetting procedure – because their work may bring them into contact with children or vulnerable adults.
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    Budget 2010: Tax has doubled under Labour
    Posted on March 20, 2010
    Figures show that HMRC took £69bn out of salaries and pay packets in 1997, but expects to raise £134bn in 2010. National Insurance contributions (NICs) – a tax on income by another name – took less than £47bn out of pay 13 years ago, but will exceed £98bn in 2010, according to calculations by accountants Grant Thornton. Other taxes – such as stamp duty, council tax and capital gains tax (CGT) – have risen by even more.
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    Like all drugs, miaow-miaow should be legal
    Posted on March 20, 2010
    Comment: Attempting to scare teenagers about the dangers of drugs is pointless: their brains are wired up to take risks
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    Ed Miliband promises radical Labour election manifesto
    Posted on March 20, 2010
    Labour will pledge an end to the era of extortionate credit in its election manifesto, and is considering big increases in the minimum wage, the introduction of free school meals for all and a reduction in the voting age to 16, Ed Miliband, the cabinet minister responsible for its drafting, reveals today.
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    Nightmare for Brown as wave of strikes hits Britain
    Posted on March 20, 2010
    Britain is facing the most disruptive wave of industrial action since Labour came to power, as strikes by British Airways staff and rail workers threaten to throw the travel plans of millions of people into chaos.
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    The Lib Dems are talking tough on debt - but where's the beef?
    Posted on March 19, 2010
    Politicians won't tell the truth because voters have been infantilised by Labour, says Jeff Randall
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    Blair's fight to keep his oil cash secret: Former PM's deals are revealed as his earnings since 2007 reach £20million
    Posted on March 19, 2010
    Tony Blair waged an extraordinary two-year battle to keep secret a lucrative deal with a multinational oil giant which has extensive interests in Iraq. Mr Blair also went to great efforts to keep hidden a £1million deal advising the ruling royal family in Iraq's neighbour Kuwait.
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    Councils 'missing housing targets'
    Posted on March 19, 2010
    Around 98% of councils have failed to provide the affordable housing needed in their area, a charity said. Shelter said only eight out of the 323 local authorities in England had managed to provide enough affordable homes to meet demand during 2008-09.
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