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October 4th, 2008
THE PROBLEM with generalisations is that they often fail to hold up to rigorous scrutiny. The popular conception that footballers spend most of their time chasing good odds, bad women and any kind of booze or drugs you care to mention is of course an ...
October 8th, 2008
The Treasury today guaranteed that no British customers of Icesave would lose their savings after the Icelandic online bank collapsed yesterday. The Prime Minister issued a blanket guarantee that the 300,000 UK customers would get all their money ...
October 10th, 2008
HUNDREDS of building projects across Scotland could be under threat after eight councils were dragged into the financial turmoil caused by the collapse of the Icelandic banking system. About £1 billion of UK taxpayers' money held in Icelandic banks ...
October 8th, 2008
Gordon Brown today vowed to protect British savers who face losing money in the Icesave online bank which collapsed yesterday, and threatened legal action against the Icelandic authorities to force it to honour its obligations. Icesave, the online ...
October 8th, 2008
Chancellor Alistair Darling today launched a drastic rescue of Britain's high street banks in move designed to head off a cataclysmic failure of confidence by announcing a part-nationalisation plan with £50 billion of taxpayers' money. He said there ...
October 4th, 2008
House prices have nearly doubled in five university towns during the past five years, figures have showed. Belfast has seen the strongest growth, with the average cost of a home in the City soaring by 105% to £207,669 despite recent price falls ...
October 8th, 2008
Taxpayers will be committed today to providing more than £50 billion to bail out high street banks in an attempt to avert a cataclysmic failure of confidence. Alistair Darling was due to tell the City in an early morning announcement today that the ...
October 4th, 2008
A SCOTTISH airline has threatened legal action against an online betting site after it offered odds on the chances of the carrier going bust. Flyglobespan, Scotland's low-cost operator, threatened the unprecedented step against a gambling site ...
September 28th, 2008
Maybe you're like me: You've never won anything in your life. Never won a contest or a sweepstakes. Never hit on a lottery ticket. Never even won a lousy door prize. When the old guys manning the Knights of Columbus table wave you over to buy raffle ...
August 17th, 2008
THOUSANDS OF people marched through Aberdeen yesterday to protest about massive cuts being made to council services. The demonstration was organised in response to Aberdeen City Council's announcement of a £27 million funding reduction earlier ...
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