Tax cuts for more than 20million 'innocent victims' of the recession have been pledged by David Cameron. The Tory leader proposed to scrap income tax on savings for 18million basic-rate taxpayers, who would benefit by up to £7,200 a year.
The number of patients killed by hospital blunders has soared by 60 per cent in just two years. Records show that 3,645 died as a result of infections, botched operations and other mistakes in 2007/08.
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Lewis Hamilton's boss has been branded a racist and a bully during an employment tribunal.
Bosses are furious over a TV commercial for a cold remedy which encourages sufferers 'to throw a sickie'.
At least 2.4million workers called in sick yesterday in the worst day of absences some experts had ever seen. Some 8.3 per cent of the country's workforce could not make it into the office, figures suggest - with even more expected to take today off. In total, 6,823 working days per hundred thousand workers are forecast to be lost this week, with around four in ten blamed on the cold and flu outbreaks. ...read
High Street giant Marks & Spencer is cutting more than 1,000 jobs, it has emerged.
Waterford Wedgwood has become the latest victim of the economic downturn.
A woman who did not realise she was pregnant died after haemorrhaging when she went into labour at home. Friends of Elizabeth Tevenan said she had no idea she was pregnant.
He was stabbed to death while valiantly protecting fellow police officers from a knife-wielding Al Qaeda terrorist. Yet Stephen Oake was snubbed as 'unsuitable' when it was suggested he receive a George Cross.
At least 14 more Palestinian children were killed in the Gaza Strip as the misery and terror of civilians trapped by the Israeli bombardment intensifies.
Throughout war, disaster and recession, it has kept Britain illuminated for more than 120 years. But the traditional incandescent lightbulb is finally being switched off for the last time.
Plunging car prices are leaving thousands of motorists in 'negative equity' on their vehicle loans, experts warn.
A quarter of mortgage deals are available only to borrowers with a 40 per cent deposit, it has been revealed.
A £1-a-day pill that can help a woman rapidly drop a dress size could be sold over the counter within months. The drug helped slimmers lose around 10lb over six months in trials.
Two in three criminals being 'punished' by the justice system in some parts of Britain do not even suffer the shame of a court conviction.
Think of a weightlifter and the image that comes to mind is of a musclebound hulk with thighs like treetrunks. Think again. Petite 14-year-old Zoe Smith has staked her claim to be the strongest girl in Britain after lifting almost two-thirds more than her bodyweight. ...read
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As a vicar, he must have heard of turning the other cheek. But The Reverend Stuart Bennett was apparently unable to keep his temper in check in a neighbourly argument over a hedge. A bitter two-year feud with retired oil rig worker Brian Stokoe, who lives next door to the vicarage, culminated with both men being arrested for alleged assault after a heated exchange. ...read
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