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Taxpayers Take Note: tax code change

September 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

Some 40 million individuals under the age of 65 will see their tax code change this month with basic rate taxpayers becoming £120 better off a year.
With the basic personal allowance for 2008/09 increasing by £600 to £6,035 and the basic rate tax band reducing to £34,800, those earning up

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Police search Osbaston house in Shropshire for bodies

August 30th, 2008 · No Comments

Police are searching a burned-out mansion for three bodies; they said the Osbaston house search in Shropshire could last weeks

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Argos workers voted in favour of strike action

July 7th, 2008 · No Comments

We all know how hard its getting with prices increasing on nearly everything but our houses, but is it really needed to strike to get more money if your earning between £17,000 and £22,000 a year, also even after being offered a 4% pay increase

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Octopus determined to solve the Rubik’s Cube

July 7th, 2008 · No Comments

The Rubik’s Cube is a gadget that was massive in the early 1980s and has also been reinvented since; the little Cube has defeated many children over the decades.
Now the Rubik’s Cube and other toys are being handed to octopuses in the name of science and these Octopus are determined to solve the Rubik’s Cube

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Man arrested over stabbing of two French students in London

July 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Today we are hearing that a man has been arrested in connection with the stabbing of two French students in London, the students (Gabriel Ferez and Laurent Bonomo) were tied and brutally stabbed to death earlier this week

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Scottish Ambulance Service Loses 999 Disc: nearly a million emergency calls

June 25th, 2008 · 2 Comments

It’s strange how we keep hearing about highly personal information going missing of late, you could think that it’s the news stations just reporting on this topic a lot more or it could be the fact that our data is really going missing a lot these days thanks to laptops and data discs. Today we [...]

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Reading and Leeds festival voted best place for live music, Glastonbury struggles

June 21st, 2008 · No Comments

While Glastonbury continues to struggle shifting its remaining tickets, Reading and Leeds festival has been voted the best place for live music this summer, according to more than 1200 MSN Music fans. With 35% of the public vote, the August Bank Holiday festival rocked its way to the top, with Glastonbury slumping to third place [...]

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The Pregnancy Pact 17 Girls: Could this happen in the UK?

June 20th, 2008 · No Comments

It has been reported that officials at the Gloucester High School in Gloucester in the US are investigating reports that a pact has been made by a group of teenage girls to get pregnant and raise their babies together is at least partly behind a sudden spike in pregnancies at a high school in Massachusetts. [...]

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Ecologia set to clean up with the UK’s petrol retailers

June 20th, 2008 · No Comments

Ecologia, the award winning environmental consultancy and contractor, has developed a groundbreaking remediation technique, which gives it a great opportunity to clean up with the country’s petrol retailers. In an industry first, Ecologia, a company based at Kent Science Park, near Sittingbourne, has used its patented Radio Frequency technology to extract volatile chemicals from contaminated [...]

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UK growth forecast cut by CBI: Inflation and recession fears

June 16th, 2008 · No Comments

We try and think positive about the future of the UK and the money we will all have at the end of each month or week, but we also have to be realistic about the future and what we can do to prepare for the hard times if they are coming. Today we are hearing [...]

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