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<title>NHS IT &#x27;at least four years late&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It will be at least 2014 before the NHS in England has a single electronic records system, say auditors.]]></description>
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<title>Husband held after body found</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The husband of a missing make-up artist is arrested following the discovery of a body near their home.]]></description>
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<title>Motorbike star Dunlop killed</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Motorcyclist Robert Dunlop dies in a crash in Thursday's practice at the North West 200 racing festival.]]></description>
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<title>Website to trace Brits in crises</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Foreign Office launches a service to help track down Britons caught up in emergencies abroad.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The High Court is set to decide whether 14 MPs must disclose details of claims made for their second homes.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is set to visit Belfast for a three-day political conference.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[A new body set up to boost confidence in the exams system is to stage a public debate about standards.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Convicted killer Luke Mitchell is to learn whether an appeal lodged in a bid to clear his name has been successful.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Dwain Chambers will reveal his Balco drugs regime in a meeting with Britain's anti-doping agency on Friday, BBC Sport learns.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Celtic first-team coach and former Scotland international Tommy Burns has died of cancer at the age of 51.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Brendon McCullum smashes 97 as New Zealand reach 208-6 after a truncated opening day of the series against England.]]></description>
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<title>Sixth tooth found at Jersey home</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Another tooth has been uncovered at the former children's home in Jersey at the centre of an abuse inquiry.]]></description>
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<title>Asbestos cancer chemo doubts</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The funerals are due to take place of a brother and sister found dead with stab wounds in a house in Fife.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[A family's offer to re-home a cat is rejected by a charity that believes their area is not safe for cats.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[A man who fraudulently claimed almost £80,000 in benefits for 36 children is jailed for 13 months.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Police release CCTV images of football fans chasing officers and attacking one of them after the Uefa Cup final.]]></description>
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<title>Two men in campus terror arrest</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Police arrest two men at the University of Nottingham campus under the Terrorism Act.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[A liquid poured through the letterbox of a house did not cause an explosion which killed a man, police say.]]></description>
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<title>&#x27;No advantage&#x27; to school setting</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Academics claim that there are no clear advantages to setting by ability in primary schools.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Scottish newspapers are struggling to compete with London-based titles, a BBC Scotland investigation reveals.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Gordon Brown says he has kept the UK economy growing during  tough times before and insists: "I can do it again."]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[A campaigner for women prisoners, whose own daughter died in jail, is found dead.]]></description>
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<title>Sea change</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Home to high-rise hotels and bus loads of tourists, Benidorm is not an obvious destination among tourists looking for an eco holiday. But maybe it should be.]]></description>
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<title>The first VSO volunteer</title>
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<description><![CDATA[How a naive but gung-ho schoolboy put his hand-up in class, and pioneered the Voluntary Services Overseas.]]></description>
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<title>Hands of power</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Fidgety, ink-stained and with nails bitten to the quick, Gordon Brown's hands appear to tell us a lot about the man.]]></description>
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<title>&#x27;Farewell&#x27; to economic good times</title>
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<description><![CDATA["The nice decade is over," say the papers, echoing the warning given by the Bank of England governor about the state of the economy.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The family of a man left paralysed after a jump from a pier release a picture of him in hospital.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Low-paid civil servants may receive more than £100m in back-pay under Peter Robinson's plans.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[A teenager is arrested after two people are assaulted at a residential home on the north coast.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[A zombie thriller partly shot in Govan and Dumfries and Galloway gets its UK-wide release in cinemas on Friday.]]></description>
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<title>&#x27;World&#x27;s worst poems&#x27; at auction</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The "world's worst poet" could be about to outsell JK Rowling, Ian Fleming and Roald Dahl at auction.]]></description>
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<title>Legal threat as bike show dropped</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A motorbike show organiser could take legal action after it was cancelled amid police fears of gang violence.]]></description>
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<title>Father &#x27;stunned&#x27; over knife death</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A man accused of killing his son after a row about chips tells a jury he did not realise he was holding a knife.]]></description>
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<title>A little local difficulty</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Labour tries to defend a once-safe seatTHE town of Crewe, in north-west England, is used to outsiders. It had a population of just 70 in 1831 but grew rapidly when it was chosen by the west-coast railway as the location for its engineering works. Along with its more bucolic neighbour, Nantwich, it now forms a parliamentary constituency of roughly 100,000 people. Both will be inundated by visitors of the political rather than industrial variety until May 22nd, when a by-election is scheduled to replace Crewe's previous Labour MP, Gwyneth Dunwoody, who died on April 17th.Labour has a comfortable majority in Parliament, so the significance of the by-election is symbolic. It is no less important for that. Were the Conservatives to win, their first by-election gain since 1982 would quicken momentum built up by months of large opinion-poll leads and a strong showing at the local elections on May 1st. To overturn Labour's majority of 7,078 in Crewe, they need to change the minds of 8% of the electorate. A similar national swing at a general election would give them a solid parliamentary majority.  ...]]></description>
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<title>Nuclear diplomacy</title>
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<description><![CDATA[British Energy proves a slow sell EVEN today, 13 years after it was built, Britain's newest nuclear-power station looks futuristic, with its landmark white containment dome and the blue haze of Cerenkov radiation in the cooling pond. In contrast to the huge furnaces needed to burn coal, a reactor core at Sizewell B roughly the size of a smallish lorry produces 3% of Britain's electricity. But its construction was so controversial?sparking one of the longest planning inquiries ever?that, after it was finished, nuclear power was abandoned for a generation.Now, worries over climate change and the end of self-sufficiency in oil and gas mean that atom-splitting is set for a comeback. Ministers want new plants to boost nuclear power's contribution above the 18% of electricity it currently provides but insist that, unlike in the past, there will be no subsidies. With that in mind, the government announced in March that British Energy, which owns most of Britain's nuclear plants (including Sizewell B), was up for sale, and with it the state's 35% stake.  ...]]></description>
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<title>The hardest word</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Frank Field, the fight-back and the virtues and limitations of apologyTWO apologies were made in the House of Commons on May 13th. The first came via a startling announcement from Alistair Darling, the chancellor. The other was made by a humble backbench Labour MP, Frank Field. His was unquestionably the more gracious: concise where Mr Darling's was waffly, blunt where the chancellor was periphrastic. It is just possible that Mr Field's apology will also turn out to be the more important.Status is an odd commodity in politics. There are some cabinet ministers?Mr Darling is one of them?who combine nominal eminence with bland invisibility. There are some MPs, on the other hand, with little formal authority but high renown, sometimes derived from peccadillos or eccentricities, in a few cases from their intellect or principles. Mr Field is one of those. His latest bout of disproportionate prominence came as leader of a backbench tax rebellion. That threatened to torpedo the government; there is a chance, if a slim one, that his apology may prove a symbolic turning-point in Gordon Brown's premiership. ...]]></description>
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<title>A $10m mystery</title>
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<description><![CDATA[What connects the deputy-chairman of the Conservative Party with Hugo Chavez?MICHAEL ASHCROFT is a powerful man. A former treasurer of the Conservative Party, he is now its deputy-chairman. He is also a very wealthy man?the 65th richest in Britain, according to a rough-and-ready ranking by the Sunday Times. Through one of his companies, he has given over GBP3m ($6m, at today's rates) to the Tories in the past five years in cash and kind (including free flights for the leadership and opinion-poll research). Before the last general election, Lord Ashcroft lent the Tories another GBP3.6m. As well as being powerful and rich, Lord Ashcroft is elusive: he is the right-wing pimpernel of British politics, whose name is uttered with awe and terror by Labour MPs. The mystery partly emanates from Lord Ashcroft's association with Belize: he spent part of his youth in what was then still British Honduras, subsequently returning to Belize to base some of his business activities there. ...]]></description>
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<title>A flimsy fightback</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A darkening economy threatens the prime minister's bid to regain the initiativeWHEN Gordon Brown became prime minister last June, few doubted that it was his commanding performance in ten years as chancellor of the exchequer that made him the uncontested candidate. Yet in his astonishing fall from grace of the past few months, economic and fiscal stumbles have featured large. A haunting precedent is the short-lived administration of Anthony Eden, famed as a diplomat, who was felled by his mishandling of foreign policy in the Suez crisis of 1956.This week Mr Brown sought to regain the initiative on what used to be his home ground. His most dramatic step was an astonishing fiscal volte-face to quell a Labour Party revolt against the abolition of the 10% income-tax band. That decision, revealed in Mr Brown's final budget but with effect from this year, returned to plague him because it made 5.3m poor households worse off. The government had agreed to try to help the losers at an expected cost of less than GBP1 billion ($2 billion). But on May 13th Alistair Darling, the chancellor of the exchequer, went much farther when he announced income-tax measures costing GBP2.7 billion in 2008-09.  ...]]></description>
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<title>A check on the mail</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Royal Mail struggles to compete in a liberalised marketA MORE remote part of Britain would be hard to find than the small Shetland island of Foula. With a population of 30, it lies across 17 miles of angry Atlantic Ocean from its nearest neighbour. Getting to it is not easy. One can catch a ferry (assuming the waves are not too high) or take a plane, if the wind isn't too harsh. Delivering mail regularly to the 21 addresses on the island is as difficult. Although the island is one of a handful that do not get post delivered six times a week (by special exemption, its mail comes only three times a week, usually when the ferry is running), that is the only concession granted to Royal Mail, the state-owned postal company. No matter how much it costs to deliver letters to Foula, Royal Mail can charge no more than the standard rate of 36p for a first-class letter. This ?universal service? of mail deliveries to all parts of the country for a single price is one of Royal Mail's proudest achievements. It is also its Achilles heel. ...]]></description>
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<title>Scout&#x27;s honour</title>
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<description><![CDATA[BAE, its reputation tarnished, promises to behave betterSTABLE doors are seldom slammed shut by so eminent a group as that chaired by Lord Woolf, a former chief justice, to scrutinise the ethics of Britain's biggest defence firm, BAE Systems. His committee included Doug Daft, a former chief executive of Coca-Cola, and Sir David Walker, a City grandee. It was established by the company a year ago in a bid to clean up a reputation tarnished by allegations that its longstanding arms deal with Saudi Arabia, worth GBP43 billion ($85 billion), involved the payment of bribes.After interviewing scores of people and pondering the matter for a year the wise men (and woman), who were asked to examine only the firm's current procedures and not its past conduct, have produced an array of recommendations for better behaviour. These include getting the board of directors to pay more attention to which countries are buying the company's weapons and for BAE to avoid hiring ?agents? or ?advisers? unless absolutely necessary. The firm should also steer especially clear of advisers who are ?recommended by a government official? or who whisper about fat commissions, cash payments or numbered bank accounts.  ...]]></description>
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<title>The big Mo</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Tories have now got political momentum but they have still much to prove FOR a party some historians say has been defined by little more than an instinct for winning and holding power, the Conservatives' long estrangement from high office has been traumatic. On May 1st that dark night of the Tory soul ended when Boris Johnson, the party's candidate for London's mayoralty, defeated Ken Livingstone, Labour's incumbent. The Conservatives also did better than most had expected in the local elections that took place in England and Wales the same day, scoring 44% of the popular vote. Labour finished third, behind the Liberal Democrats, its share of the vote squeezed to 24%, its lowest since 1968. It now runs only a quarter as many town halls as it did in the mid-1990s (see chart). According to John Curtice, a psephologist at Strathclyde University, if the results on May 1st were repeated in a general election, they would produce a crushing Tory majority in Parliament of 116 seats.  ...]]></description>
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<title>Of stable lads and ballet dancers</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The professions that could slip through the points-based systemCANTERING through the Berkshire countryside, the four racehorses could hardly look more English. It might not be surprising in these globalised times that Kingwood House Stables in Lambourn, where Derby winners have been trained, is owned by an Arab sheikh. But the labour, too, is foreign: Slim, a young rider teaching his horse the ropes, is Indian. His colleagues include Brazilians and Pakistanis; nearby stables employ Filipinos and Mauritians. Nearly a third of Britain's ?work riders?, the brave souls who take young horses on practice gallops, come from outside Europe. They have to: trainers can no longer find enough young Britons willing to start work at 5am on Sundays. And size is a problem: riders cannot be much over nine stone (57kg) and 90% of British men are too heavy.Slender and hard-working, immigrants are loved by business. But voters are less content. Since 2004 half a million east Europeans have settled in Britain, competing with natives for low-skilled jobs and putting pressure on public services in some towns. The government cannot do much about it because most Europeans are entitled to work where they like. So crowd-pleasing cuts must be made instead to migrant workers from outside Europe.  ...]]></description>
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<title>Dead on arrival</title>
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<description><![CDATA[An autopsy on a scheme for training doctors bodes ill for future health plansTHE relationship between doctors and bureaucrats is more often than not a fractious one. A highly educated and fiercely independent profession tends to resent attempts by mere civilians to screw down costs, manage performance or dictate treatment. But the fiasco that ensued in 2007 when the health department tried to change the way junior doctors applied for further training and progressed in their careers was in a class of its own. On May 8th, a committee of MPs published an inquest into the mess. Not just a routine post-mortem, the report is a cautionary tale for Labour's other grandiose plans to reorganise the National Health Service.The Medical Training Application Service (MTAS), a website through which newly qualified doctors had to apply to train to be specialists, was launched in January 2007, and abandoned just three months later. In between, its short life was nothing more than a slow-motion collapse, marked by technical hitches, security breaches, legal challenges, demonstrations by junior doctors, emergency ministerial statements and high-profile resignations. It caused ?the biggest crisis within the medical profession in a generation?, according to a health-department report; it was a ?deeply damaging episode for British medicine?, concluded a subsequent independent review. ...]]></description>
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<title>It wasn&#x27;t like this in my day</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The government stiffens the law on dope?against official advicePERHAPS they are too stoned to notice, but cannabis users do not seem to pay much attention to changes in the law regarding their beloved weed. When the government last tinkered with the law in 2003, downgrading dope's seriousness, many feared an increase in consumption. Instead, the prevalence of occasional smoking among young people has since fallen, from 25% to 21%.Following that apparent success, the government has now decided to reverse the decision. On May 7th Jacqui Smith, the home secretary, announced that cannabis would be upgraded from a class C drug?the mildest type?to class B, putting it in the same company as amphetamines. Earlier that day the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD), an official body of academics, social workers, policemen and other drugs experts, had recommended she leave it alone. Ms Smith said the public supported her in taking a tough line and claimed that strong new strains of cannabis presented a risk to mental health. ...]]></description>
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<title>Another setback for Gordon</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The issue of Scottish independence may hurt the prime ministerGORDON BROWN'S current problems with the electorate were foreshadowed in Scotland shortly before he became prime minister last June. A month earlier Labour had lost power in the devolved parliament to the Scottish National Party (SNP). Now Mr Brown seems to have lost control of the Scottish Labour Party. Overruling the prime minister's caution, Wendy Alexander, who leads Labour in the parliament, said on May 6th she wants a referendum on Scottish independence.Ms Alexander's announcement was a volte-face. Previously, she had ruled out such a poll on the grounds that she was opposed to independence and that it commanded the support of only a minority of voters. Now, she says, she wants to ?bring it on?. But her move was also a slap in the face for the prime minister, whose response seemed to reinforce his reputation for dithering. On May 7th he indicated that he wanted to wait at least a year before deciding whether to back a referendum.  ...]]></description>
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<title>The other tax rebellion</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Taxing multinationals is no easy task, especially if they can leaveWHEN Gordon Brown's biographers eventually look back on his plodding path to and from the prime minister's office, they would do well to spend time studying the arcane minutiae of his tax policies. His grip on the party's leadership may have been weakened by the rebellion of Labour's backbenchers over an income-tax change that has hit low-paid workers. However, an equally vexing problem facing him and souring his party's electoral prospects lies in a dusty corner of the corporate-tax code.So far it has caused no more than a trickle of companies to pack their bags for lower-taxed climes, but many more are threatening to do so. Businesspeople are up in arms, warning the government of an ?exodus? of firms and speaking darkly of a loss of faith in the government.  ...]]></description>
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<title>The final triumph</title>
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<description><![CDATA[How electoral disaster disguises New Labour's ultimate victoryPOLITICAL obituaries are often written prematurely. Unlike ordinary ones, they tend to exaggerate failures and gloss over success: sacked ministers are ?disgraced?, defeated leaders irredeemable losers. Responses to Gordon Brown's humiliation in the local and London elections on May 1st have evinced both the hastiness and the hyperbole. Some commentators have excitably heralded the results as certain evidence not only of the prime minister's inevitable defenestration, at a general election or sooner, but also as a conclusive popular rejection of New Labour and all its works.On the second point, at least, the excitable commentators are already wrong. The big electoral tent that New Labour built may have collapsed, but many of its intellectual pillars are still standing. Indeed, the revival of the Conservatives under David Cameron arguably represents the project's final triumph. ...]]></description>
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<title>The trust question</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Tories must do more to convince voters that they could manage the economy better than LabourOVER the past decade, Labour has enjoyed a vote-winning premium as the party most trusted to look after the economy. That lead has now turned to lag. The Conservatives are beginning to reclaim ground that once looked as impregnable as it was vital. Whether or not David Cameron, the Tory leader, and George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, can press home their advantage may decide the outcome of the general election next year or, more likely, in 2010.No matter how people grumbled at Labour's tax rises and interfering ways when they last went to the polls in 2005, they credited Gordon Brown with creating the economic stability over which he presided in his long stint as chancellor. But the prime minister's claim to have done away with boom and bust is now looking premature as the financial crisis takes its toll.  ...]]></description>
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<title>In the dock, and on the web</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Dickensian London comes alive?YES,? admitted Giuseppe Farnara, through an interpreter, ?I plead guilty; I had the intention to blow up the capitalists, and all the middle classes.? Farnara and his accomplice, Francis Polti, were rumbled on the evidence of an engineer and a chemist, who went to the police when two suspicious foreigners tried to buy lengths of iron piping and a pint of sulphuric acid. Their fate was sealed when Farnara's landlord discovered a stash of extremist literature in his bedroom. This very modern-sounding terrorism trial concluded on April 30th 1894; the defendants were sentenced to a total of 30 years' penal servitude.Scouring the online archives of the Old Bailey, London's most famous criminal court, shows that some of today's crimes are not as new as they may seem. Take villains such as Pierre Dubois and Armand Dibon, a pair of child-sex traffickers who lured a 15-year-old French girl to London in 1902. And there is plenty of anti-social behaviour: as soon as steam trains arrived in the 19th century, the Old Bailey filled up with youths charged with throwing bricks at them. These glimpses of the past are possible thanks to Sheffield, Hertfordshire and Open universities, which have uploaded the records of 197,745 trials stretching back to 1674. ...]]></description>
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<title>Costly stranglehold</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The far-reaching consequences of the refinery workers' strikeMINISTERS and oil-industry bosses heaved sighs of relief when the owner of the Grangemouth refinery and its workers met for talks on April 29th. The strike over the previous two days had turned out to have more costly repercussions than anyone had imagined. And the biggest losers were neither Ineos, the big multinational private company that owns the refinery, nor the workers, but other North Sea oil firms and the government.The dispute centres on changes that Ineos wants to make to its very generous pension plan, which would oblige workers to contribute. The talks between the company and the workers' union, Unite, produced a proposal that both sides agreed to ponder for a few days. But the mood music was discordant. Ineos said it was thinking of switching a planned GBP200m investment in its Scottish refinery to plants in Belgium or Germany, with a consequent threat to Scottish jobs. Unite said it could not rule out further strikes. ...]]></description>
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<title>Hopes of healing</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Is the gloom beginning to lift?WHEN the Bank of England produced its previous Financial Stability Report in October, it struck a gloomy note. In the event, it was not pessimistic enough; financial markets suffered a near-crippling loss of confidence in March. Since then, however, things have started to look up, and the Bank of England's latest report, published on May 1st, suggests that the worst of the banking crisis may be over.One reason for the wary optimism is the restorative effect of determined action by central banks. Following in the footsteps of America's Federal Reserve, the Bank of England made a dramatic move late in April to restore confidence in Britain's banking system when it launched its ?special liquidity scheme?. The report also suggests that market valuations of losses on America's subprime mortgages?to which British and European as well as American banks are exposed?may prove exaggerated. Eventual losses could turn out to be around $170 billion (GBP86 billion) rather than the market-based figure of $380 billion. ...]]></description>
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<title>Hard sell</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A beauty parade for foreign investors turns the spotlight on blemishes tooTHE last big set-piece of Northern Ireland's new post-conflict dispensation takes place in Belfast from May 7th to 9th. Billed as a conference to encourage American investment, it will be launched by Paula Dobriansky, George Bush's envoy to Northern Ireland, and the Rev Ian Paisley in his final public outing as first minister. More than 70 important American executives have promised to attend. Whatever new investment the conference produces, the occasion is all that remains of Mr Paisley's boast that he negotiated financial help from Gordon Brown, Britain's prime minister, to bed down power-sharing at Stormont with Sinn Fein, the republican party loathed by his grassroots supporters as the IRA's political offshoot. The message from London is now that the new Belfast administration must make its own luck: self-reliance is the watchword, with no special incentives to encourage foreign investment in Northern Ireland that Scotland would then demand.  ...]]></description>
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