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inthenews.co.uk: Recorded crime costing £15 billion a year inthenews.co.uk

£275-a-head cost of crime

jpress.co.uk     5 hrs ago   9 related          

The cost of tackling recorded crime is £15 billion a year or £275 per person, according to a new report. The Taxpayers' Alliance said the cost of crimes reported to police in England, Wales and Northern Ireland was highest in...

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Ryanair lifts its stake in rival Aer Lingus

By Alistair Osborne, Business Editor Ryanair has reiterated its ambitions to acquire Aer Lingus after snapping up 3.5m more shares in the rival Irish airline, taking its stake to 29.82pc. The low-fare carrier is believed to...

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afp.com: afp.com

ECB raises rates in bid to curb inflation

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Euro plunges and political leaders protest as central bank tightens monetary policy The European Central Bank has raised interest rates a quarter point to 4.25pc to curb record inflation, becoming the...

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BSkyB considers €2.5bn Spanish bid

ft.com     4 hrs ago   1 related          

By Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson and Ben Fenton in London British Sky Broadcasting, the UK satellite group, is considering making a bid of more than €2.5bn ($3.9bn) for Digital Plus, the Spanish pay-television platform, which would...

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dailymail.co.uk: Derek Conway, MP dailymail.co.uk

More than a quarter of MPs put relatives on the payroll - at the taxpayers' expense

Scandal: Derek Conway overpaid his son out of his MP expenses More than a quarter of MPs employ family members at the taxpayer's expense, it was revealed yesterday. At least 177 MPs, including three Cabinet ministers and six...

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bbc.co.uk: William Porterfield of Ireland bbc.co.uk

County stars back for Twenty20

bbc.co.uk     11 hrs ago   3 related          

Ireland will be boosted by the return of their county stars for the Twenty20 World Cup qualifiers at the Stormont ground in Belfast in August. Gloucestershire's William Porterfield is back as captain and Trent Johnston is also...

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Erwin James reports on the effect musicians visiting prisons may have on the inmates

guardian.co.uk     7 hrs ago   1 related          

'They brought us in some peace' It can be a cynical publicity stunt. The Irish singer/songwriter Foy Vance for example, who writes the most hopeful songs I've ever heard, played in a number of prisons last year including New...

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Obituary: Patrick Moran

guardian.co.uk     7 hrs ago          

The life of my great-uncle, Pat Moran, who has died of a heart attack aged 85, took in coal and diamond mining, travel and adventure. But it was a hard life too, and his search for work took him to England, Canada and the US....

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McGuinness to advise Iraqis on making peace

Martin McGuinness, the Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland and a former commander of the IRA, arrives in Baghdad tomorrow to promote Northern Ireland as a model for reconciliation between Iraq's embattled Shia and Sunni...

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A Floating Commonwealth, by Christopher Harvie

independent.co.uk     7 hrs ago          

The train from Wolverhampton to Aberystwyth stuttered along its journey, reversed twice, and eventually expired at the second-last stop. On the way, I had passed a wild rollercoaster of hills and valleys, a grassy chaos which...

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