PFI concessions won on back of NHS strike threat
Recent government concessions to NHS support workers over employment rights were made under threat of a massive wave of industrial action across the UK's flagship private...
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The Stark ages
What a fate, to be a prince's ex. Koo Stark is now in her mid-forties, a jobbing photographer, embroiled in a hellish court case with the American investment banker who i...
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Labour cements hold on Wales
Labour cemented its position as the dominant party in Wales, retaining 34 out of the principality's 40 seats, and 48% of the vote, in the face of a Plaid Cymru challenge....
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Satisfaction, no demolition
For Shane Byrne and Mick O'Driscoll it was a day to remember - the hooker opening his international career after a lifetime in the wings, while the young second row has h...
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Kate Lee
Age: 29
Job title: Midlands regional director
Organisation: British Red Cross
Salary: £37,000
Region: West Midlands
Sector: voluntary
Kate Lee says with ...
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Finance round-up
Dresdner cuts 1,300 more jobs
Dresdner Bank of Germany is to cut another 1,300 jobs as part of its attempt to reduce costs amid expectations of a global economic down...
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Cut-free Hatton hands out his own specialist treatment
Ricky Hatton enhanced his growing reputation by retaining the World Boxing Union light-welterweight title in front of a capacity crowd at Manchester Velodrome.
The unde...
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Professionalism and Trust - The future of teachers and training
Introduction
This pamphlet accompanies my speech to the Social Market Foundation. It is about the next steps we must take to raise standards in our schools yet higher. ...
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Hoon: 'strikes have destroyed al-Qaida camps
The government said today that American and British war planes had destroyed all of al-Qaida's terrorist training camps in Afghanistan, but added that no decision had bee...
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HE staff management problems exposed
Only one third of universities and colleges in England have complete policies for recruiting, motivating and retaining their staff, a report has revealed.
The results ex...
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Fundraiser's role as envoy under attack
Tony Blair's personal Middle East envoy's increasingly prominent role in Britain's diplomatic relations with Israel - while retaining a tight grip on Labour's fundraising...
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Well being
How are you?' asks Sheridan Jobbins, the notorious counterculture Australian writer, midway through the 298 emails that have just binged themselves into existence in my i...
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Manchester United 0 - 3 Chelsea
Manchester United's hopes of retaining the Premier League title are rapidly diminishing after they suffered their worst home defeat in six years against Chelsea.
Once a...
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Expert advice on reaching out to new volunteers
Diversifying the kind of volunteers a charity attracts not only helps tackle volunteer recruitment problems but can also allow voluntary organisations to tap into new are...
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Cap on student recruitment could be lifted
Popular universities will be allowed to recruit as many students as they can, ministers signalled today.
Institutions that fail to attract as many students as expected, ...
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Earning a reprieve
Local authorities in England and Wales are to disregard earnings when deciding whether, and how much, to charge disabled workers for home care services. The move represen...
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Royston Landau
As director of graduate studies at the Architectural Association from 1974-93, Royston "Roy" Landau, who has died of a heart attack aged 74, was part of the process that ...
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Housing reforms marred by recruitment crisis
Experts have warned of a recruitment crisis for staff in charge of a major reform to the funding system for hundred of thousands of vulnerable housing tenants.
At presen...
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Van Nistelrooy wires up United and strings up the Saints
The shell-shocked look on Gordon Strachan's face suggested normal service had been resumed by the champions but those bookies who offered odds of 10-1 against Manchester ...
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Ordinary people (part one)
Angelo Amaranto
Every afternoon, Angelo Amaranto would arrive home in Borough Park, Brooklyn, from his job in the maintenance department at the World Trade Centre, grab...
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Bulls in charge of the world
Bradford Bulls gave the British game a boost, but at the same time sent an ominous warning to their domestic Super League rivals, by retaining the world championship titl...
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Oxbridge urged to take poor students
Universities should run big budget American-style campaigns to identify and recruit talented students from poor families, the government will say today.
Margaret Hodge,...
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Another kind of freedom
Losing your seat as an MP is a fairly brutal process - one minute you are in gainful employment, the next you are out on your ear. So what do ex-MPs do? When I became the...
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Ulster's police chief faces daunting in-tray
Northern Ireland's acting chief constable, Colin Cramphorn, took over one of the toughest and busiest policing jobs in the world when he stepped into Sir Ronnie Flanagan'...
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Hospital support staff to keep NHS contracts under PFI
Hospital blue-collar workers will remain NHS employees, retaining nationally agreed pay, pensions and working conditions in all new private finance initiative (PFI) deals...
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Shoedog by George P Pelecanos, read by Jeff Harding
Constantine has drifted around the world for 17 years since leaving the US Marine Corps, wondrously retaining an Adonis face and physique on a ciggie-vodka diet. Now back...
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You can sell a semi in the south and buy a mansion up here
The job adverts pull few punches: swap the suffocating south-east for the space, sea air and gentle hills of Northumberland. There is, of course, the added attraction of ...
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Setting the screw loose
You could say that Ian Acheson left his career in the prison service just in time. A month after taking the helm at charity Prisoners Abroad, a damning report was publish...
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Is Labour learning to let go?
Dealing with New Labour, as Lloyd George once observed of Eamonn De Valera, is 'like trying to pick up mercury with a fork'. You think you have a good purchase on them, a...
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New organ retention row hits Alder Hey
Managers at Liverpool's Alder Hey children's hospital were today accused of "learning nothing" from the organ retention scandal after it emerged that body parts have cont...
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