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Where will the Olympic torch go?
An online street map showing the exact route of the Olympic torch relay has been released. It is hoped 95 per cent of the population will be within 10 miles of the route.
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Rangers administrators strike wage deal
Wage cuts of up to 75 per cent have been negotiated with Rangers players which will help to allow the Scottish club to fulfill this season’s remaining fixtures.
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Homeowners hit by rising mortgage costs
With mortgage costs rising for 850,000 borrowers, housing campaigners are warning that poverty and homelessness are set to increase.
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Skyrocketing price of living in a spa town
Quality of life and “a sense of history” means it costs homebuyers an average premium of nearly £50,000 to live in a spa town in England or Wales, research has found.
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RBS announces £2bn losses but claws back some bonuses
RBS boss Stephen Hester tells Channel 4 News the bank has clawed back bonuses from at least 36 employees this year.
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Britain will avoid recession – CBI
The CBI employers’ body says Britain will avoid recession but other forecasters are less opimistic, with one economist telling Channel 4 News that “the economy is going nowhere”.
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Barclays slashes bonuses as profits fall 3 per cent
Barclays has reported a 3 per cent fall in profits last year to £5.9bn. The bank has also slashed the bonus pool for its investment banking arm amid mounting pressure over the payouts.
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What would Dickens write about if he were alive today?
As the bicentenary of Charles Dickens’ birth is celebrated, Channel 4 News looks at the themes he might include in his novels if he were writing in 2012.
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RBS chairman turns down £1.4m share bonus
One day after RBS chief executive Stephen Hester is awarded a £930,00 bonus, it emerges Sir Philip Hampton, the bank’s chairman, is to turn down a share-based bonus worth £1.4m.
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Outrage at RBS boss’s bonus payout
Politicians and unions have criticised as “out of touch” the £963,000 bonus package awarded to Royal Bank of Scotland boss Stephen Hester.
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Goldman Sachs staff receive £8bn in pay and bonuses
As Goldman Sachs reveals that staff earned £8bn in pay and bonuses in 2011, anti-capitalist protesters lose their court battle to occupy land outside St Paul’s cathedral in London.
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Somali pirate ransoms top £3m as report demands action
As British private security companies queue up to offer armed guards to counter pirate attacks off Somalia, a government report calls for tighter regulation of a flourishing industry.
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Government accepts Vickers banking reforms
Chancellor George Osborne announces plans to separate high street and investment banking to prevent another crisis – in “the most far-reaching” financial reforms of the modern era.
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Tackling childhood deprivation – but who pays?
A proven scheme to help tackle social problems by building family relationships in deprived areas launches tomorrow. It’s funded not by the government – but by a bank and a supermarket.
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Reducing the pay gap in UK companies
The High Pay Commission is critical of top bosses’ salaries. But why is the gap between executive pay and that of ordinary workers so big? And how do you achieve more transparency on remuneration?