Keme Nzerem
Blood bags in doping scandal could be destroyed
The biggest doping ring in the history of sport is unravelling, but blood bags which could be vital evidence might yet be destroyed on the orders of a court.
Search results for ‘Ed Balls’
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Labour would axe winter fuel cash for rich, says Balls
The shadow chancellor announces Labour would cut winter fuel payments for the richest pensioners, in a move intended to show the opposition’s willingness to display “iron discipline” once in power.
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Asda defends response after horse drug found in corned beef
Asda says it informed customers “immediately and in the most high profile way possible” after the horse drug bute was found in its value range of corned beef.
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Osborne ‘out of touch’ over disabled parking space
Chancellor George Osborne, who has been defending welfare reform this week, is accused of being “out of touch” after his official car was photographed parked in a disabled space.
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UK’s AAA credit rating downgraded
George Osborne says Britain will not “run away” from its problems after Moody’s downgraded the country’s AAA credit rating, but Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls describes it as “a humiliating blow”.
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Findus lasagnes may have contained horsemeat ‘since August’
Findus’s beef lasagne may have been contaminated with horsemeat since the summer, Labour MP Tom Watson says.
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Peeps and Epic Prejudice – Jane Austen re-imagined for 2013
Spray tans and the rich list: as Pride and Prejudice marks 200 years, stand-up comedian Jen Brister re-imagines the first chapter of Jane Austen’s classic novel, with #totes hilarious results…
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Alex Thomson
Welcome to Cluan Place – a street failed by the peace process
Politically disengaged, isolated and despairing, Alex Thomson meets the community outraged by the decision to curtail the flying of the Union Jack at Belfast city hall.
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Labour jobs pledge for unemployed
Pension tax relief for top earners could be cut to fund guaranteed jobs for the long-term unemployed, if Labour is re-elected.
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Balls attacks benefit claimants who are ‘playing the system’
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls defends Labour’s proposals to get unemployed people into minimum wage jobs, telling Channel 4 News that “there is no option of staying on benefits year after year”.
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Banks need ‘electrified’ ring-fence, say MPs
The ring-fence between Britain’s high street and investment banks is not effective and needs to be strengthened, say MPs in a highly critical report.
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Michael Crick
Christine Hamilton lined up to become Ukip MEP
I hereby predict that in the European elections in 2014, Christine Hamilton will be elected an MEP for Ukip. And her husband Neil could well become a Ukip MEP as well.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Official harmony – but ordinary Chinese are pushed to the side
As China’s congress meets to choreograph a seamless leadership changeover, there is much proletariat grumbling over the divide between rich and poor.
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Gary Gibbon
Tory whips ‘fretting’ over Wednesday’s EU vote
“Panicking”, “fretting”, “pestering”, or in “meltdown” – what’s got the Tory whips so stressed? A vote to do with the European Union, of course.
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Osborne vs Balls: inside the conference speeches
The chancellor and the shadow chancellor have now made their conference speeches. What do they tell us about their different views of the current economic crisis?
