New figures show the number of delayed discharges from hospital has increased by 16% in the last 15 months, at a total bill of almost quarter of a billion pounds.
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LabourParty on 2nd Dec 2011 (via labour.org.uk)
Confidential troika report says without cuts in repayments Athens bail-out needs could rocket to €444bn
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FT on 21st Oct 2011 (via ft.com)
"He just kept on trucking. When unable to get a haircut because the barber would not cut the hair of black people, he bought himself a pair of clippers and cut his own hair. He does so to this day. (Take that, John Edwards!) This is the same man who put himself through Morehouse College majoring in math, got a masters in computer science from Purdue (while improving academically), plotted rocket g...
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With great effort our Samizdatista spies in the US Senate have uncovered the deepest secrets of the Senator/Rocket Scientists plans for a $30B Super Heavy Jobs Lifter! Senate Rocket Scientists plans unveiled! Montage and Gimping: copyright Dale Amon, All Rights Reserved...
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Israel continues to absorb terrorist attacks from Gaza, at the rate of 20 rockets over the last 25 hours. The worst strike was in Ashdod, where an Iranian Grad Rocket hit a synagogue while the worshipers were at morning prayers. A number of people were injured, two of them seriously. IAF aircraft hit seven Hamas security installations in Gaza early Friday morning, killing at least one Palestinian....
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JOSHUAPUNDIT on 19th Aug 2011 (via joshuapundit.blogspot.com)
France has added some more rocket fuel to Monday’s already volatile summit of EU leaders by pledging to introduce a 0.1pc tax on financial transactions in August. Oh to be a property agent in London these days. Brush up on the French lessons and wait for the stampede of Frogs into London to escape the
A Russian Soyuz rocket blasted off from French Guiana on today (21 October) bearing the first two satellites in Europe's Galileo global positioning system, a much-heralded mission which may generate €90 billion in economic and social benefits over two decades and will redraw commercial competition in space. More »
Today's sampler and analysis of Mideast media content from my pal Soccer Dad: 1) The One Sided Ceasefire On Wednesday, the Washington Post's Joel Greenberg reported: A tenuous cease-fire between Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip was punctured Wednesday by a deadly Israeli airstrike that triggered rocket and mortar fire at Israel. The airstrike killed one, Ismail Asmar, a...
More globalisation! The Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr) forecasts that the value of seaborne UK imports, adjusted for inflation, will grow by 287pc over the next two decades, with exports delivered by sea up 119pc. Britain’s £345bn imports by sea in 2010 will rocket to £1.95tn by 2030, the Cebr estimates, with exports
The footage could have come from Congo or Sudan – young men in jeans and T-shirts with AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades slung carelessly over their shoulders, leaning on the side of a lorry with a machine gun welded on the back.
