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21 June 2007 GOVERNMENT MINISTERS in Britain are supporting a controversial £14 billion scheme for harnessing the power of the tide... 31 May 2007 Private Finance Initiative: A NEW industry buying and selling refinanced Private Finance Initiative (PFI) assets is proving to be enormously profitable for companies wanting to make a quick almost risk-free buck... 17 May 2007 DAY TWO of Gordon Brown's campaign to convince a doubting public that he is different from Blair finds him in Gillingham where he famously shared an ice cream with the outgoing PM during the last general election... 17 May 2007 GLOBAL WARMING and consequent climate change 'can be solved' according to the third part of the major 2007 study from the UN-sponsored committee of scientists (IPCC), issued in Bangkok early in May... 17 May 2007 Joe Higgins and the victorious Gama workers 3 May 2007 WHOEVER TAKES over as commercial director at the Department of Health will oversee the purchase of care for NHS patients... 26 April 2007
What we think: IN THE Thursday 3 May elections, 10,456 seats across 312 local authorities in England are being contested... 19 April 2007
29 March 2007
CULTURE SECRETARY Tessa Jowell recently announced that the 2012 Olympic games to be staged in east London, will cost an estimated £9.3 billion... 9 November 2006
IMMIGRATION HAS resurfaced as a headline grabbing issue, with the Home Office announcement that, since 2004, 600,000 Eastern Europeans from the new EU countries, mainly from Poland, have arrived in Britain, writes Sean Figg. |