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Market Report: Lloyds strengthens after Basel III boost
13 January 2013 the markets some traders gossiped about water group United Utilities. The North-west of England-focused group was the subject of takeover speculation last year, with Ontario Teachers’ Pension…
Simon Read: Complaints are soaring, but the banks still aren’t listening
13 January 2013 Have we become a nation of moaners? News this week that the Financial Ombudsman Service is being forced to recruit an extra 1,000 staff to cope with…
Lambert: Stuttering Villa cannot expect owner to splash the cash
13 January 2013 Paul Lambert is refusing to add his voice to a chorus of disapproval among Aston Villa fans at American owner Randy Lerner’s tightening of the purse strings…
MPs say wind farm contracts are ‘shocking’
13 January 2013 Families could face higher electricity bills as a result of “shocking” blunders in awarding new contracts for offshore wind farms, a group of MPs has warned. Private…
Decline and write-down of a coach empire
13 January 2013 FTSE 100 giant 3i has written down its investment in Shearings, the Wigan-based tour operator it bought for £100m in 2005, near the height of the market.…
David Morley: Legal wizard casts his spell over apprentices
13 January 2013 David Morley is at the top of his game – he’s chief wizard at Allen & Overy, one of the City’s “magic circle” law firms and up…
Claire Perry: ‘I am not a celebrity. It is not the jungle’
13 January 2013 This weekend, the Conservative member for Devizes is squatting in a mud hut in Gunjur. Claire Perry, 48, has taken her 13-year-old daughter out of school and…
The Emperor’s New Clothes (13/01/13)
13 January 2013 Of all the months in all the year, January is ever the wooden spoon winner; the marzipan sweet marooned in the chocolate box when all the…
IoS book review: The Letters of TS Eliot Volume 4: 1928-1929, ed Valeria Eliot and John Haffenden
13 January 2013 The passage from private to public that dominated the third volume of T S Eliot’s letters, covering the period from 1926 to 1927, seems almost complete in…
Overseas study is good for business
13 January 2013 I often read “horror” stories about large increases in the number of UK citizens opting to study abroad, but in reality very few do so – and…
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