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Row breaks out over Gordon Brown's plan to tax City profits

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago

International levy on financial trading would help developing world deal with climate change A row blew up last night after Gordon Brown promoted plans for an international tax on City dealing that could raise funds for the world's poor and help developing countries tackle climate change . No sooner had the prime minister floated the idea of a tax on bank transactions than it was shot down by US treasury...

Not worth a couple of quid

Cllr Fraser Macpherson (Free subscription) | yesterday

Parliamentary by-elections tend to result in a few stunts, but none so embarrassing as the purile stunt by SNP candidate, the rather arrogant David Kerr, in flinging a £2 coin towards the Labour candidate on Thursday night’s “Politics Now” on STV. I was away Thursday evening so only saw the programme this afternoon. Whilst the other main party candidates acquitted themselves...

Why Brown is not Obama

Jess The Dog (Free subscription) | yesterday

There are plenty of reasons, but this sums it up. President Obama* saluting the returning coffin of a soldier killed in Afghanistan. I couldn't find a photo of Brown at Brize Norton, Lyneham or Wooton Bassett, so here is a Brown funereal tribute. Gordon Brown has attended a memorial service for the former National Union of Miners (NUM) general secretary Lawrence Daly. The prime minister joined current...

Stimulus, not tax needed: Geithner

Reuters UK (Free subscription) | yesterday

ST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Saturday stressed the necessity of keeping global economic stimulus in place until recovery is assured and opposed the utility of a tax on financial transactions as a way to dampen risky bank behaviour.

UK joins G20 push for levy on banks

Reuters UK (Free subscription) | yesterday

ST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters) - Britain threw its weight on Saturday behind proposals to impose a global levy on banks to fund future bailouts and called on the G20 to work towards a $100 billion (60 billion pounds) deal to meet the cost of climate change.

• UK gives ground on global tax on banks - Reuters
• UK joins G20 push for world levy on banks (Reuters) - WiredNews
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Gordon Brown calls for global bank bailout fund

The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday

The prime minister tells G20 taxpayers must be protected from bearing the cost of failure by world's banks The prime minister, Gordon Brown, has called for a new "economic and social contract" with the world's banks to ensure that the cost of their failure would never again be borne by taxpayers. Addressing a G20 meeting in Scotland, Brown said it was not acceptable that banking success...

Geithner says need to keep stimulus on

Reuters (Free subscription) | yesterday

ST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said high unemployment rates show that economic recovery is still perilous and governments need to maintain stimulus as long as necessary to ensure sustained growth.

Scots duo relish shared captaincy

Sport Experts (Free subscription) | yesterday

Mike Blair and Chris Cusiter insist that their dual captaincy can benefit Scotland in the autumn Tests.

Brown proposes financial market tax at G20 meeting - 2nd Update

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday

St Andrews, Scotland - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown urged finance ministers from the world's 20 leading economies meeting Saturday to consider imposing a tax on financial transactions to help head off future global economic crises. It cannot ...

UK State to Take Unborn Baby

Vlad Tepes (Free subscription) | yesterday

From The Brussels Journal Kerry Robertson, 17, and Mark McDougall, 25, haven’t broken any law. But they are on the run from the authorities, and from their home in Dunfermline, Scotland. Less than eight weeks ago the couple were excitedly planning their wedding. They had booked church ceremony for the 5th of September, a Saturday. She had [...]

Economic recovery, climate change tops G20 meeting - Update

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday

St Andrews, Scotland - Finance ministers from the world's 20 leading economies were meeting Saturday in the Scottish golf resort of St Andrews in a bid to reinforce signs of a tentative recovery that have emerged in the global eoncomy. But coming in ...

G20 hits St Andrews

Diary of an Innkeeper (Free subscription) | yesterday

You will have seen on the news how the G20 have been at Fairmont this weekend. We have had some great business from it as well as, I'm sure the other restaurants in the area have. This is such a boost for Fife and St Andrews. We launched our new autumn menus on Wednesday and the restaurant and bar feedback has been brilliant , Richard has introduced some great old style dishes with a modern twist Fresh...

2009-11-07 11:23 UK’s Brown: G20 should consider bank tax urgently

Money Outlook (Free subscription) | yesterday

ST ANDREWS, Scotland, Nov 7 - A tax on financial transactions to fund future bank bailouts should be considered with urgency, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Saturday, a significant departure from London's line to date.

Reisgnation on nuclear submarine disposal programme

What Oor Willie Did Next (Free subscription) | yesterday

A government adviser has resigned in protest at the sacking of a colleague from the MOD advisory group which is deciding how to dispose of the UK's decommissioned nuclear submarines. Peter Lanyon says his position is no longer tenable as his views and those of his sacked colleague were not being considered. Dr Jane Hunt, a specialist in Environmental Projects at Lancaster University was sacked from...

Economic recovery, climate change tops G20 meeting

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday

St Andrews, Scotland - Finance ministers from the world's 20 leading economies are meeting in the Scottish golf resort of St Andrews Saturday to review the state of the global economy amid signs of a tentative recovery from its biggest slump in a gen...