Intercity trains upgrade postponed | UK news | guardian.co.uk . It’s claimed that: A £7.5bn contract to replace Britain’s ageing intercity train fleet has been
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FT.com / Currencies – Sterling hit by double-dip recession fears. As the FT notes: The pound dropped to a fresh nine-month low against the dollar
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FT.com / Columnists / Martin Wolf – How unruly economists can agree. Well, I might overstate my case a bit, but he does argue for
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‘Slash and burn’ plan would cost us all dear -Times Online . Same letter Different audience

The Guardian reports: Scores of university halls of residences and lecture theatres in the UK were judged "at serious risk of major failure or breakdown"
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The antidote to Gordon Brown’s caution | David Wearing | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk . David Wearing, writing about last weekend’s Fabian conference has
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Ann Pettifor has written: There has been much sturm and drang generated by the Guardian and others on the threat posed to government finances by
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The First Post has a report from the annual meeting of the American Economic Association. I don’t like quoting at too much length, but this
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Build America Bonds: An Economic-Stimulus Success – TIME. When Congress wrote the Build America Bond program into February’s $787 billion economic-stimulus bill, many predicted a
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