The coalition is under pressure to protect struggling companies from banks that could use the recovery to sell their assets and recoup loans after it emerged that Conservatives have quietly dropped plans for sweeping bankruptcy reform
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In B&Q they cost 20p. So why does the NHS spend £99 for a screw to put in your hip? The ones at B&Q are steel, have wide tolerances and are not sterile. The NHS buys screws that are titanium, with narrow tolerances and sterile. As the article itself says: We sell screws that are barely any different from
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IF YOU want to sell your services as a writer of wills or an administrator of deceased persons' estates, Scots law allows you almost complete freedom. You do not have to b
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A DAIRY farmer at the centre of a controversy over a cloned cow has described how he would like to sell milk from its descendants as a premium product.
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Scotsman on 26th Aug 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
The idea that the best way to deal with amazingly profitable and slightly addictive substances is to let the most thieving and murderous people in our country sell them, and kill anyone who’d mention this to the regulators, also doesn’t strike me as top notch. Sadly, it was also one of the lines
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A £1,000-a-plate ticket to a fund-raising dinner at the Conservative Party conference has led to accusations of cash for access.
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Telegraph on 25th Aug 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
As long as Turkish membership of the EU raises the prospect of mass emigration to the rest of the bloc, it will be impossible to sell it to western European voters, writes Gideon Rachman
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FT on 25th Aug 2010 (via ft.com)
Britain's Defence Secretary Liam Fox defends his comments calling on retailers to refuse to sell the forthcoming Medal of Honor game.
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BBCPolitics on 23rd Aug 2010 (via bbc.co.uk)
Discount chain Poundland is on the hunt for bigger stores after the cut-price chain, which sells everything from washing-up liquid to dogfood and pink cowgirl hats at a £1 a go, delivered a 130% leap in annual profits. Chief executive...
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Rod Blagojevich, the former Illinois governor accused of trying to sell Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat, was found guilty of a single count of making false statements to FBI agents
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