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Sep 8 2008
The clean-up and repair bill from the weekend storms will run to tens of millions of pounds, insurers have said, as forecasters predicted more bad weather for flood-ravaged areas....
Sep 8 2008
Hundreds of thousands of UK pensioners face a return to rationing as they struggle to make ends meet, the Royal British Legion has warned....
Sep 8 2008
The Chancellor will confront critics of the Government when he faces a barrage of questions from union leaders demanding increases in public sector pay and windfall taxes on energy firms....
Sep 8 2008
David Miliband is among a host of Cabinet members who has pledged their backing for Gordon Brown - but he also suggested the Prime Minister had failed to perform up to now....
Sep 8 2008
City traders were left powerless after a computer crash paralysed the London Stock Exchange for seven hours during what should have been one of its busiest sessions of the year....
Sep 8 2008
A hero father has described how he saved his daughter from near certain death after she fell into a storm drain during the floods....
Sep 8 2008
Islamic extremist Abdulla Ahmed Ali has been found guilty of conspiring to kill hundreds of people in a terrorist bombing campaign....
Sep 8 2008
An embarrassing computer failure at the London Stock Exchange (LSE) left City traders unable to cash in on a worldwide stock market boom for much of Monday....
Sep 8 2008
A 43-year-old man has been charged with the double murder of a man and a woman on a canal boat, said police....
Sep 8 2008
Two building societies have announced mergers with the Nationwide after turning to the mortgage giant for shelter from financial difficulties....
Sep 8 2008
Local authorities across Britain have failed to collect more than £745million in council taxes, according to new research....
Sep 8 2008
A "dossier of disgrace" was compiled by the country's biggest trade union showing the "greed" of energy firms as part of a campaign for a windfall tax on company profits....
Sep 8 2008
Gordon Brown has insisted Britain can do "well" out of the present challenges facing the country....
Sep 8 2008
The London Stock Exchange ground to a halt on Monday as its trading system was hit by a embarrassing technical glitch....
Sep 8 2008
The Government came under fierce attack by union leaders as a programme of action and demonstrations was agreed over public sector pay....
Sep 8 2008
The cost of repairing the damage done by the weekend floods is likely to be tens of millions, insurers said....
Sep 8 2008
The leader of the TUC delivered a blunt message to the Government on public sector wages, saying decent rises for millions of workers could be afforded....
Sep 8 2008
Mortgage lender Nationwide announced mergers with smaller mutuals the Derbyshire and Cheshire building societies....
Sep 8 2008
Installing high speed broadband in every home in the UK could cost almost £30 billion, an industry report said....
Sep 8 2008
The Government will come under attack from trade unions later over the pay of public sector workers as they gear up for fresh strikes later this year....
Sep 8 2008
Significant cuts in immigration are backed by a large majority of supporters of all political parties, according to a new poll....
Sep 8 2008
Former SAS soldier Andy McNab has warned that Britain was sitting on a "timebomb" of future severe mental health problems among Iraq and Afghanistan veterans....
Sep 8 2008
Some 50,000 low-income families across England are to be offered £205 a week to pay for childcare so parents can get training to help them back to work....
Sep 8 2008
Prime Minister Gordon Brown is to tell Cabinet ministers he is determined to provide leadership by "squaring up to hard truths, being open with the British people about the choices we face, and making tough decisions"....
Sep 8 2008
The Government will come under attack from trade unions later over the pay of public sector workers as they gear up for fresh strikes later this year....
Sep 8 2008
British pubs have closed at the rate of five a day during the first half of this year, according to new figures....
Sep 8 2008
Tennis ace Andy Murray has continued a glorious period for British sport as he qualified for the US Open final....
Sep 8 2008
British mortgage experts have welcomed the historic US government takeover of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac....
Sep 8 2008
Torrential rains which lashed the country over the weekend have eased off, but forecasters have warned of more floods to come....
Sep 8 2008
Almost a quarter of the population will be in fuel poverty by next year and those on low incomes will be especially badly hit, new figures have showed....
Sep 8 2008
The poor state of the British economy will impose a "straitjacket" on an incoming Conservative administration for several years if the party wins the next election, shadow chancellor George Osborne has warned....
