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Larry Elliott | Darling to make do with small mercies in pre-election budget
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Three Labour MPs and a Conservative peer are due in court today on account of their parliamentary expenses.
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Strike action by British Airways staff is expected to take place, as last night efforts to reach an agreement collapsed, following weeks of talks between the airline and union Unite.
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Police are investigating Labour MP Harry Cohen over his expenses claims, according to the BBC. Mr Cohen, who is standing down, was considered to be in "serious" breach of the expenses rules.
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- High speed rail plans published
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Plans for a new high speed rail network, including trains capable of speeds of 250mph, will be published by the government today.
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- Clegg demands post-election deal
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Nick Clegg, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, has said that fair taxation, a green economy, education investment and political reform would be central to his demands if negotiation a post-election deal in a hung parliament. He has called for a £10bn debt repayment in the next financial year to begin cutting Britain's deficit and calm the financial markets.
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- Social care levy could be set at 10%
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The government's proposed levy to fund the establishment of a National Care Service could be sourced out of 10% of an estate's value for those receiving care, Health Secretary Andy Burnham has said.
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- Budget sets sights on 6 May election
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The chancellor confirmed in writing yesterday that this year's budget would took place on March 24 following a speech by the prime minister, fuelling the expectation that a general election will take place on May 6.
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Reaction continues to the prime minister's major economic address yesterday. Gordon Brown said there would be "bumps in the road", but that the UK had reached a turning point on economic recovery.
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The government's plan to roll-out an electronic border checking system to monitor 95% of journeys by the end of this year is "not credible," opposition parties and some airline operators have said.
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Police failures to properly record and resolve cases of anti-social behaviour has damaged public confidence in the police, according to the chief inspector of the constabulary Denis O'Connor.
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Greece is bracing itself for strikes as workers prepare for the second general strike in a month.
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The vice-president of an influential group of judges has said that government changes to criminal sentencing could result in further overcrowding of prisons by encouraging jail sentences.
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Hospitals have been criticised for failing to give patients the medicine they require. The claims have been made by the National Patient Safety Agency.
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Baroness Ashton has launched a review of proposals for an EU military headquarters. Ashton said the Union risked becoming "bogged down" over the details of the new EU foreign service.
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Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, will boycott the US led peace talks with Israel. He blamed Israel's refusal to halt settlement expansion.
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Ministers have proposed greater use of social science to track terrorists, saying that social scientists, psychologists and private companies could be brought in to help identify them.
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The equalities watchdog will say that police forces have been "racist" in their use of stop and search powers, saying there is a "disproportionality" in the way those are wielded in a report this month, the Guardian has learned.
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A man who has been repeatedly mistaken as James Bulger's killer has called for the Justice Secretary Jack Straw to make public the true identity of Jon Venables.
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The heated debate that took place yesterday at PMQs between David Cameron and Gordon Brown over Brown's evidence to the Chilcot inquiry has been escalated by criticism from former chief of defence staff Lord Guthrie.
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Ministers are planning to reduce the number of uniformed police despite pledges to do otherwise, according to the Conservatives.
Selected Sources- Scientists to review work of IPCC
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Science academies across the world will not review the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon has announced.
Selected Sources- Poll: Labour to be biggest party
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The general election will result in a hung parliament with Labour as the largest party, according to the latest YouGov/Sun tracker poll. The poll puts the Conservatives on 37% and Labour on 32%.
Selected Sources- Northern Rock in positive turnaround
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With reduced losses at Northern Rock and the bank set to turn around its beleaguered loan book this year, its chief executive yesterday defended proposed bonus payouts to staff of nearly £15 million.
Selected Sources- Report: Family of 'UK Fritzl' failed by system
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A father who raped his two daughters and made them pregnant 18 times over the course of 35 years, was never detected because of a number of failures by professional workers, according to a report.
Selected Sources- Ofsted: Many schools still 'inadequate'
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The schools regulator has said that 14% of UK secondary schools still remain inadequate, despite the government's drive to improve their performance.
Selected Sources- Cameron's wife to have major campaign role
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Beginning with an interview with ITV's Trevor McDonald this weekend, Samantha Cameron will play a major role in the Conservatives' election campaign, David Cameron has revealed.
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One of David Cameron's key aides and long time friends the shadow arts minister Ed Vaizey has told Vanity Fair magazine that the tory party leader is "much more conservative" in private than his public image suggests
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Tuesday 24th November 2009 | 10:47
Mervyn King: Banks must be allowed to fail
Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England, told members of the Treasury Committee that it would be a "big mistake" to allow banking reform to stifle a bank's right to fail.
"They make mistakes from time to time and take on too much risk but the rules of a market economy mean that it is allowed to fail, and people need to know that in advance."
Although Mr King accepted that there was a serious need to protect utility banking, he stressed the need to "liberate" investment banking and said that regulators could be ones to warn against risk-taking.
"If regulators were that clever we could let them run the banks. Things do go wrong and important thing is to allow people taking those risks to lose."
His comments were in reference to the publication of November's inflation report, in which HBOS and RBS were also named as banks who had received - and paid back - emergency loans from the Bank of England.
Mr King predicted a rise in inflation rates from the current rate of 1.5%, due to high petrol prices and reversing last year's VAT cut, but hoped it would stay close to the 2% target.
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