Economic growth in country could drop by half this year in the event of a sharp recession in Europe, the IMF predicted on Monday in
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According to one person close to the process, as much as half of the measures outlined in those plans do not look credible
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It is hard to believe but we are shortly to approach the half-way point in this Parliament. It seems a very long time ago that the Coalition Agreement was negotiated and voted on at the Special Conference at the NEC in Birmingham. That document articulated several goals including deficit reduction and being the greenest government
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More than half of Welsh councils are owed money from private developers which should be going towards community facilities.
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The Euro crisis has been postponed. The Euro area has now adopted the very popular approach in the modern west of simply printing more cash to see them over a rough patch. The ECB’s decision to lend more than half a trillion euros to Euro area banks, for 3 years at 1%, was
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About half the councils which collect rubbish on a fortnightly basis have pledged to reintroduce weekly bin collections under a £250million government scheme.
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A beer called Top Totty has been banned from the Strangers’ Bar in the House of Commons because its pump plate, featuring a half-naked woman, offended female MPs. Well how obsurd! This is just another example of the ridiculous PC nature that has been allowed to creep into British society through the cotton wool and
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