United have title for taking
As relentless and predictable as the Manchester
rain, United took another significant step towards
retaining their Premiership title with a nonchalance that
should cause ...
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No more heroes
The actor Harrison Ford recently announced that - for the first time in his career - he is retaining an agent. After a series of flops, he wants help in choosing scripts....
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Away with our heavy burden
Universities are close to achieving the big prize: retaining public confidence in the quality of university teaching while removing the huge bureaucratic burden under whi...
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My life on the net: David Long, Reclaim the Streets activist
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This site produces spoof versions of the enemy's websites. While retaining a graphic similarity, real information is given instead of the office propaganda ...
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Stressed out of work
Evidence of staffing problems in mental health care is nothing new, but an authoritative report today warns starkly that if difficulties of recruitment and retention are ...
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Mandelson still in a spin over police bill
Peter Mandelson has introduced the novel concept of retaining the name of the RUC in the police's "title deeds" to recognise that the RUC is being reformed rather than di...
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Royal Bank rules outmass closures
Royal Bank of Scotland will cut 9,000 jobs by year-end after buying NatWest but will spare its branch network of a mass closure programme.
Royal Bank, which is retainin...
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Protection or persecution?
To law enforcement officers it's a simple matter of retaining existing powers of surveillance under warrant as correspondence goes digital and encrypted. As many cyber-li...
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Joint governors may end Ripon 'apartheid
The first grammar school in England to survive a ballot on retaining its status is considering joint governor arrangements with the local comprehensive as part of moves t...
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Moral stand
Paul Davies completed his masters degree in business and administration at Cambridge University last summer but has yet to graduate. His outstanding debt of £14.50 f...
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Blunkett facing more fees pressure
English universities could have huge difficulties in recruiting and retaining good staff as they face a 1% cut in budgets in real terms for the coming year, the head of t...
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Special deal for NHS lab staff is a healthy sign
The above-inflation pay rise offered to laboratory staff and other NHS workers is not merely a nicely timed pre-election sweetener, but an admission that low pay for staf...
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Last of the true believers
Robert Altman is a mandarin power to be reckoned with and his long, troubling career is one of the most fascinating in movies. His reputation depends largely on his statu...
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Psycho's autobiography hits the spot but Barry Fry takes the biscuit
Devotees of Psycho, The French Connection, The Italian Job and Oh What a Lovely War will not be disappointed by football's Christmas offerings in the bookshops. Nor will ...
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Floor to ceiling finance
Town halls could be allowed to create rate-free zones for businesses in poor neighbourhoods to encourage job creation while retaining additional council tax and business ...
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Heriot's slow to show class
The defending champions Heriot's recovered from a shaky opening to brush aside a Hawks challenge, retaining their place at the top of the BT Scotland Premiership First Di...
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Kennedy pay plan to tackle 'disaster' in teacher recruitment
Charles Kennedy, the Liberal Democrat leader, yesterday pledged an extra £330m a year for teachers' salaries to remedy a "national disaster" in teacher recruitment.
Mr K...
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Incubators hatch new intrapreneurs
Creating and managing your own business can be one of the great learning experiences. Making an idea a reality can test an almost limitless range of skills. While concent...
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Corus tells steel unions: Go to hell
Steelmaker Corus has secretly thrown out union proposals to save thousands of jobs and keep open threatened UK plants.
Documents obtained by The Observer show that Cor...
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Chirac faces judgment of Paris
Rarely can the old war horse have been so worried. President Jacques Chirac has faced a close race or two in his career, but with the right four percentage points behind,...
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Profile: Richard Douglas
Richard Douglas, the new NHS finance director, will have to hit the ground running when he takes up his new job in May.
NHS finance faces difficult challenges in the com...
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Can we learn from Anna's death?
As a child protection social worker with over 13 years' experience, I listened with incredulity to the litany of fundamental mistakes made in the investigation into Anna ...
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This is a lottery that rewards failure
The Company's policy on executive remuneration," intones the annual report of Corus, the Anglo-Dutch steel group, "is geared to attracting, retaining and motivating indiv...
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The tide has turned in teacher recruitment
A 24% year-on-year rise in applications for teacher training courses showed that teaching was becoming a "more attractive profession", education secretary David Blunkett ...
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Met lets Muslim policewomen don headscarves
The old-style helmet is out, the hijab is in, at least for female Muslim recruits to the Metropolitan police.
As part of an initiative called Protect and Respect: Every...
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Rapid rise in police recruitment
Jack Straw today announced a dramatic increase in police recruitment, saying Home Office figures show a 77% jump in new recruits starting training this year.
The home s...
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Hague: the endgame
The Tory party has a leader, but it's out of his control. Six weeks short of an election, it can be seen careering into the far blue yonder. This is what desperation does...
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Employers urged to give staff more than money
Skills shortages and the rising costs of recruiting staff mean that it is vital for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to retain their key staff if they wish to gr...
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Young Gunners keep their Cup
Arsenal's multi-talented and multi-cultural team
completed the job of retaining the FA Youth Cup last
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New online guidelines for fundraisers
New guidelines for online fundraising have been published this month which set out standards for selling goods, retaining data and contracting out to online shopping mall...
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