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Why falling inflation matters
Inflation falls in April 2013. There is still a gap between what individuals are earning and the price of goods and services they are purchasing; it is just that this gap is getting smaller. Photograph: Dominic ...
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Does George Michael have a problem with cars
you're stoned off your bonce . There was also the time when he hit three parked cars while trying to get out of his space in 2006, plus two slumped-at-the-wheel incidents in the same ...
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Dancing on Ice to end in 2014
celebrity contestants through painful tumbles on the show, announced on ITV's Daybreak on Tuesday morning that the final series will be broadcast next year."It's come full circle for us. We've had the most wonderful experience doing Dancing On Ice and we just wanted to finish at the top of our game and for the show to be on top of its game so we just felt it was the right ...
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Global Radio told to sell seven stations
Global Radio , owner of network radio brands including Capital, Heart and Real, must sell stations in seven areas of the UK to appease the competition regulator's concerns over its 70m acquisition of GMG Radio.The UK's largest radio operator has been told by the Competition Commission that it must sell some of GMG Radio's Real and Smooth stations, or its own services such as Heart ...
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United Kingdom Sharp decrease in inflation
Consumer prices rose in April by 0.2% over the month, but CPI inflation decreased for the first time since September 2012 (to 2.4%). It may increase in the coming months. However inflation should increase less than previously expected in line with the fall in energy ...
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Models are workers too – Equitys new code should be taken seriously | Sara Manresa
are now forbidden by Equity's new code of conduct for models, could equally be the title for a model's memoirs. We frequently face little or no pay, no food, no privacy when changing and ridiculously long hours.The new code of conduct, which has been signed by Vogue, aims to make poor working conditions for models a thing of the past, promising no more than 10-hour days, food, water, ...
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Miners outsourcers keep Britains FTSE at 12-year highs
* Biggest ever fall in organic service revenue* FY earnings down 3.1 percent, just beating market view* CEO refuses to comment on sale of Verizon stake* Will keep hold of latest Verizon payout* Shares flatBy Kate Holton and Paul SandleLONDON, May 21 (Reuters) - Vodafone will reinvest ...
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UPDATE 3-Vodafone keeps Verizon payout to make up for European slump
Tue May 21, 2013 6:52am EDT * Biggest ever fall in organic service revenue * FY earnings down 3.1 percent, just beating market view * CEO refuses to comment on sale of Verizon stake * Will keep hold of latest Verizon payout * Shares flat By Kate Holton and Paul Sandle LONDON, May 21 (Reuters) - Vodafone will reinvest a $3.2 billion dividend from its healthy U.S. arm to counter weakness in ...
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Manchester United Top Table for Premier League TV Earnings
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Pope Francis Watch pontiff perform exorcism on boy in wheelchair
The Pope has been filmed reportedly performing an exorcism on a boy in a wheelchair. Footage shows the pontiff briefly laying both hands on the boy's head after mass on Sunday in St Peter's Square. The boy is then seen shaking for a few seconds. Italian religious satellite channel TV 2000 broadcast the film claiming it showed the Pope had performed an exorcism. But the Vatican ...
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Oklahoma tornado Watch emotional moment survivor finds her pet dog alive under the rubble
This was the tear-jerking moment an elderly survivor of the devastating Oklahoma tornado found her pet dog under the rubble of a house.Barbara Garcia was reunited with the animal during a live TV interview.She was talking to a journalist from KWTV (affiliated to CBS) about losing her home and her dog when the animal emerged."Well I thought God just answered one prayer to let me be OK, but ...
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Eddie Braben Morecambe and Wise comedy writer dies aged 82
Comedy writer Eddie Braben, the third man behind the success of Morecambe and Wise, died today at the age of 82, his manager said.Norma Farnes said Braben, who also wrote for Ken Dodd, died following a short illness.Ms Farnes said: "The writer Eddie Braben, the third man behind the success of Morecambe and Wise, died this morning at the age of 82 after a short illness."It was Billy ...
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Kate Middleton baby Prince William jokes about sleepless nights when wife gives birth
the Duke of Cambridge looked every inch the proud father today as he was handed a babygrow with "My daddy's a hero" emblazoned on the front.With two months to go until the arrival of his first child, William laughed with other parents about the sleepless nights ahead.The father-to-be was handed the outfit and a Help for Heroes teddy bear as he toured the charity's Tedworth ...
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Inflation falls after drop in petrol prices and airfares
inflation more than expected last month, bringing some relief to both households and Bank of England policymakers.The consumer price measure of inflation fell for the first time since last autumn and stood at 2.4% in April, down from 2.8% in March. The drop was driven by lower fuel costs and airfares as the oil price fell, more than offsetting a rise in food prices after damage to crops over the ...
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Royal Mail profits surge ahead of planned sell-off
postal service in the most ambitious privatisation since British Gas in 1986.The company, which ministers hope to float on the London stock exchange within a year, said its pre-tax profits in the year to the end of March 2013 increased to 324m from 201m a year earlier. Sales, which were boosted by a 30% rise in the price of first class stamps to 60p, increased by more than 500m to 9.3bn.The ...
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Rotherham council apologises over way it handled removal of children from Ukip foster parents
A council has apologised over the way it handled a decision to remove three Eastern European children from foster parents who were members of ...
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Vodafone reports first ever fall in revenues as southern Europe slumps
Europe saw its takings there fall by almost 17%.With its finances under pressure, the British mobile phone giant said it would reinvest next month's 2.1bn dividend from US subsidiary Verizon Wireless in the business, rather than returning cash to shareholders.Overall revenues at the British mobile phone company fell by 4.2% to 44.4bn, marking the first such contraction in the company's ...
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Schmallenberg vaccine available to UK farmers this summer
A new vaccine is being made available to prevent a disease which causes severe birth defects and miscarriages in livestock, it was announced today.Schmallenberg virus, which emerged in the Netherlands and Germany in 2011 and has been seen in cattle and sheep in the UK since early 2012, has been identified on more than 1,700 farms across the ...
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UPDATE 2-Marks Spencer says investment to hold back profits
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British inflation eases by more than expected
LONDON -; Official figures show that consumer price inflation in Britain eased in April, largely on the back of lower fuel prices and ...
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British mobile phone giant Vodafones annual net profits tumbles 90
Business India News: British mobile phone giant Vodafone said Tuesday that annual net profits tumbled 90 percent after taking a vast impairment charge relating to its businesses in debt-laden eurozone nations Italy and ...
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Gay marriage bill may lead to lesbian queen and artificially inseminated heir
marriage opens up the possibility of a lesbian queen giving birth to a future monarch by artificial insemination, Lord Tebbit has warned.In one of his more outspoken interventions, the former Conservative party chairman told the Big Issue magazine that the legislation could also allow him to marry his son to escape inheritance tax.Tebbit's remarks indicate that the marriage (same sex ...
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Met police defend decision not to pursue leaks
Scotland Yard on Monday defended a decision it made not to take action over intelligence it received alleging leaks of internal secrets from its "inner sanctum", potentially to the News of the World (NoW).The intelligence is contained in a Met document generated in April 2006 at a time when the then commissioner, Sir Ian Blair (now Lord Blair), faced internal ructions and a hostile ...
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Entertainment One reports 25 jump in profit growth
Entertainment One has reported a 25% jump in profit growth, helped by the release of the fifth Twilight film. Photograph: Summit Entertainment/Sportsphoto ...
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Bell Fit as England Name Unchanged Squad for Second Test
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Edinburgh's tram of indefinite delays
The development of a new tram system for Edinburgh has not been without controversy. Since the project was first proposed as far back as 1999 it took until 2006 for work to actually begin. Since then, there has been one failing after another, with many Edinburgh residents now wondering whether the new tram system will ever see the light of day and, more to the point, whether it is in fact necessary.
Edinburgh had a tram system up until the 1950s and, like many developed cities, it did away with the network in favor of other forms of public transport, mainly buses. Increasingly heavy traffic jams in the capital, however, have prompted city leaders to reconsider and in 2006 two bills went through parliament and were approved. Read more
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