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EU budget spending increase 2.9%

Next year's EU budget has been finally agreed - a controversial 2.9% spending increase in the midst of a Europe-wide recession and drastic national...

Government defends NHS reform plans

The Government has insisted it had listened to concerns about the scale and speed of its radical shake-up of the NHS.Unions, thinktanks and health...

High street sees big sales boost

The high street has enjoyed its strongest sales growth in eight years as shoppers look to beat January's VAT rise, the CBI has said.Despite...

Cable pledges to cut EU red tape

The Government has promised to cut European red tape to help British firms compete with continental rivals.Business Secretary Vince Cable promised to halt the...

FSA to publish RBS collapse report

The City regulator has bowed to pressure and said it hoped to reveal details of its inquiry into the collapse of Royal Bank of...

Firm fined £3m for Saddam kickbacks

A British engineering company has been fined £3 million by a court for paying illegal kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's regime to secure lucrative contracts.Weir...

Zuckerberg is Time 'Person of Year'

Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has been named Time magazine's Person of the Year for 2010.At 26, Zuckerberg has put himself on...

Sea horror as asylum boat crashes

A small boat packed with asylum seekers has smashed aground on rocks in a storm off an Australian island, hurling passengers into the churning...

Cameras bar faithful from holy site

Jerusalem's Western Wall has been declared off limits to the faithful on the holiest day of the week because of security cameras that are...

23% of four-year-olds 'overweight'

Almost a quarter (23%) of four to five-year-olds are overweight or obese, figures have shown.The figure rises to one in three (33%) of children...

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