Portrait of the week
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Home The Somerset Levels continued to wallow in floods. The Environment Agency was widely blamed for not having dredged channels,…
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Home Britain’s gross domestic product grew by 1.9 per cent last year, the most since 2007, according to the Office…
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Home George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, said that he was in favour of increasing the minimum wage by…
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Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, said that English local authorities would be allowed to receive all the business rates…
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Home George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, made it clear in a speech that he intended to cut £25 billion…
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Home Six months of talks in Northern Ireland, chaired by Dr Richard Haass, a retired American diplomat, ended without resolving…
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January David Cameron, the Prime Minister, said he wanted to ‘negotiate a new settlement with our European partners’, and that…
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Home George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, said that average energy bills would be brought £50 lower through government…
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Home Alex Salmond, the First Minister of Scotland, outlined Scottish National Party plans for independence, which included keeping the pound…
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Home The government announced proposals for the National Health Service, including a law to criminalise wilful neglect by doctors and…
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Home EDF Energy said it would put up prices by 3.9 per cent. BT Sport spent £897 million on the rights…
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Home Three Police Federation representatives accused of giving misleading accounts of a meeting with Andrew Mitchell over the Plebgate scandal…
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Home A storm passed over England, with plenty of warning. The strongest gust, of 99mph, was recorded at Needles Old…
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Home The government agreed a guaranteed price for electricity that persuaded a consortium led by the French-owned EDF Energy and…
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Home Shares in Royal Mail, floated on the stock market at 330p, began trading at 475p. SSE, the energy supplier,…
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Home An issue of shares in Royal Mail was oversubscribed, pushing valuation well above initial forecasts of £3.3 billion. The…
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Home Shares in Royal Mail are to be sold by the middle of this month, before postmen can go on…
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Home The General Medical Council said it was dropping cases against four doctors who worked at Stafford Hospital at the…
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Home The government sold 6 per cent of Lloyds Banking Group to big investors for £3.2 billion. It still owns…
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Home George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, said that the British economy was ‘turning a corner’, with ‘tentative signs…
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Home Having recalled Parliament to debate British military action over Syria, David Cameron, the Prime Minister, found the government defeated,…
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Home Parliament was recalled four days early to debate military action against Syria, which David Cameron, the Prime Minister, had…
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Home The cost of the HS2 railway line was expected by some in the Treasury to rise from £43 billion…
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Home The population of the United Kingdom rose by 420,000, to 63.7 million, by the middle of last year, with…
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Home Retail sales enjoyed their fastest July growth in seven years, thanks to demand for beer, sun cream, swimwear and…
