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- House price reports: who needs 'em?
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:01:00 +0100
Is such a thing as a 'useful' house price index, one that can be used by buyers and sellers to reflect on their own individual deals in any meaningful way? Linton Chiswick reports on the difficult questions an official investigation into house prices must tackle.
BBC Business News
- Spending cuts 'to hit north harder'
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 04:42:36 GMT
Middlesbrough is the area of England least resilient to economic shocks, according to BBC-commissioned research.
- Empty shops highlighting 'divide'
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:09:44 GMT
The number of shops closing in Britain is slowing but a north-south divide has emerged, a survey by retail analysts the Local Data Company suggests.
- Rig firms hit back at BP report
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:55:33 GMT
Contractors who worked for BP on the ill-fated Deepwater Horizon oil rig criticise the company's report into the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
FT.com - Financial Markets News
- Stocks rebound on Eurozone relief
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 03:52:23 GMT
Global market overview: Stocks rebound in Asia as Eurozone worries recede and investors take relief from US Beige Book, while yen retreats from record highs.
- US equities edge up as Europe fears recede
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:12:53 GMT
US stocks rose as concerns about Europe?s debt problems eased and investors shrugged off the Fed?s Beige Book, which reported a slowdown in the US economic recovery
BBC News
- Questions over airport runway
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:48:42 GMT
The Northern Ireland Assembly's environment committee is to question government officials about plans for George Best Belfast City Airport later.
- Rural Wales waits for funding axe
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:37:52 GMT
Some of the largest conservation bodies in Wales fear they will have to find massive savings following the UK Government spending review.
Times Online Top Stories
- Government scales back child worker vetting scheme
Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:05:54 GMT
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- Live: Bloody Sunday families shown Saville report
Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:03:21 GMT
9.40 BST On a January morning 38 years ago, 13 protesters died at the hands of British paratroopers and 14 were injured, one so seriously he died four months later. For many of their relatives, the years since have been dominated by the search for truth about what happened during 25 chaotic minutes in central Londonderry.img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.timesonline.co.uk/c/32313/f/440134/s/b2c072c/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199169760/u/0/f/440134/c/32313/s/187434796/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199169760/u/0/f/440134/c/32313/s/187434796/a2.img" border="0"//a
- Inflation eases as food prices begin to fall
Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:51:00 GMT
Inflation eased in May to 3.4 per cent from a 17-month high the previous month, helped by weaker rises in food and petrol prices.img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.timesonline.co.uk/c/32313/f/440134/s/b2b7537/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199133096/u/0/f/440134/c/32313/s/187397431/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199133096/u/0/f/440134/c/32313/s/187397431/a2.img" border="0"//a
- News Corp reaches for the Sky with takeover offer
Tue, 15 Jun 2010 08:49:00 GMT
News Corporation, the media group headed by Rupert Murdoch, confirmed this morning that it had made an offer to take full control of BSkyB, the satellite broadcaster in which it has a 39 per cent stake.img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.timesonline.co.uk/c/32313/f/440134/s/b2ae3e0/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199129852/u/0/f/440134/c/32313/s/187360224/kg/63-65/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199129852/u/0/f/440134/c/32313/s/187360224/kg/63-65/a2.img" border="0"//a