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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Whether playing, training, warming up, warming down or simply travelling, the English sportsman is an accident waiting to happen Are the English the world's most injury‑prone people? Certainly the recent plague of afflictions visited on our football, cricket and rugby union teams suggests a nation whose inhabitants can't bend down to tie a shoelace without such twanging of sinew and muscle it...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Whether playing, training, warming up, warming down or simply travelling, the English sportsman is an accident waiting to happen Are the English the world's most injury-prone people? Certainly the recent plague of afflictions visited on our football, cricket and rugby union teams suggests a nation whose inhabitants can't bend down to tie a shoelace without such twanging of sinew and muscle it sounds...
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SlackBelly: A City Snitch (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
I see that Tesco boss, Sir Terry Leahy , has become the latest businessman to accept an Honorary Degree - a pointless bauble that's either the height of vanity to accept or a shameless begging letter if you dole them out. The retailer has been "honoured" by the University of Hertfordshire (Hatfield Poly as was) - a gong which Sir Terry can now add to the other honorary award he has from Cranfield...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Lloyds, which will sell off 600 branches in return for state aid, can now press ahead with a record-breaking £21.5bn fundraising Brussels today cleared the way for a dramatic shakeup of high street banking by formally approving the restructuring of Lloyds Banking Group, which will sell off 600 branches in return for state aid. The bank, 43% owned by the taxpayer, can now press on with a record-breaking...
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The Young Professional Blogs Aggregator (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
You know the Government is now making a bad bank of all the crud left at Northern Rock, well...even though we have never missed a payment on the mortgage, it looks like we may well be tarred and feathered alongside anyone who was fool enough to take this product. Is this me? Will I be a financial prisoner?
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
The UK public sector covers millions of workers, performing thousands of jobs. What do they get paid - and how does it vary? • Get the data • What do people get paid? The latest salary survey results The race to slash is on, with mainstream politicians calling for cuts in spending on public sector employment . There are now 6.026 million people working for the public sector in Britain, according...
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David Lindsay (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
In The New Statesman , Neil Clark writes: A pledge to renationalise the railways would be a clear vote-winner. So why do passengers’ demands fall on deaf ears? Public ownership is a puzzle. Voters are in favour of it, but our three main parties offer little to its supporters in terms of viable policy options. Instead, they remain wedded to a pro-privatisation agenda, trying to outdo each other...
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General Financial (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
By Gina Lauren Mortgages and remortgages along with secured loans are all types of loans that are secured on property. Therefore these financial products are only available to those who own their own home, and are not in rented property.. A mortgage is a form of home loan taken out by either a first time buyer or a home mover to purchase a property. A mortgage is a home loan product taken out to buy...
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Neil Clark (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
This article of mine appears in the New Statesman. It's also cross-posted at the Campaign For Public Ownership website. A pledge to renationalise the railways would be a clear vote-winner. So why do passengers’ demands fall on deaf ears? Public ownership is a puzzle. Voters are in favour of it, but our three main parties offer little to its supporters in terms of viable policy options. Instead,...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Pearl the insurer that specialises in running closed life funds is to award shares worth €2.6m £2.3m to new chairman Ron Sandler the Financial Times reported.
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Financial Times (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Pearl Group, the closed life assurance fund business, is to award shares worth €2.6m to chairman Ron Sandler. The shares will be worth more if the company's recovery and transfer to a primary listing in London are successful
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PXDCO Reviews (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Click Here to watch how I turned $4000 into $40000 on Forex In the last few weeks a number of lenders including Abbey, Halifax, Leeds BS, Nationwide BS, Northern Rock and Woolwich have made moves to cut mortgage rates, but rates are still a long way of the low reached earlier in the year, Moneyfacts has 5 [...]
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Green Gem IFA Blog (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
100 MPs push to turn Northern Rock back into a building society The pressure on the government to consider turning the bailed out bank Northern Rock back into a building society rather than sell it off increased yesterday as 100 MPs from all political parties signed a motion supporting the move... Tories keen on Sants for deputy governor's job at Bank The Conservatives are attempting to recruit Hector...
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Money: Money blog | guardian.co.uk (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
About 200 branches of Metro Bank have been planned, and its advertising campaign speculates on gaining public affection "Love your bank". It's not exactly fashionable in the current climate where "hate your bank" – and particularly bankers – is more the craze. Nevertheless it is a slogan that has begun to pop up on the side of buildings in London and is certainly eye-catching....
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e-Trade Bangladesh (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Northern Rock bank had £1bn withdrawn by depositors yesterday. The withdrawals are likely to exceed this today. Runs on the bank are very unusual in the UK. Northern Rock is the tenth largest bank in the UK. It is the first bank to approach the Bank of England, the lender of last resort, for 30 [...]