Analysis: New party leaders must fear the winds of political revolution in China
Sometimes the books that a country’s top leaders read can reveal a lot about what they are thinking. So one of the books recently read by some of the incoming members of the Standing Committee of the...
View ArticleAirport chairman warns Boris to back off
The man leading an independent review into the future of Britain’s airports has called on Boris Johnson to stop politicising the debate over how the country should expand its aviation capacity.Sir...
View ArticleMotorists lacking a sense of direction
A SENSE of direction is becoming a thing of the past for growing numbers of motorists who turn to hi-tech navigational aids for every journey however familiar, a new report showed yesterday.The latest...
View ArticleFood warnings are ignored by shoopers
Health warnings on food and drinks are totally ignored by millions of supermarket shoppers, according to a report.Nearly a third of consumers take no notice of health messages on everyday products on...
View ArticleFirst World War facts are a mystery to many people
YOUNG people are largely ignorant about the First World War with almost two-thirds not being able to name the year that the war ended, a poll has found.More than half (54 per cent) of the same age...
View ArticleCameron on arms sale tour
David Cameron embarks on a three-day tour of the Gulf and Middle East today in a bid to cement major UK arms sales and bolster relations with key allies in the region.The PM will spearhead a push to...
View ArticleCrisis in residential care and treatment for addicts
EMERGENCY talks are due to be held to discover why occupancy rates at Scotland’s residential drug treatment centres are so low. Figures have been released showing that Scotland’s drug deaths in 2011...
View ArticlePacemakers ‘can be powered by heart’
The energy from a beating heart can be harnessed to power a pacemaker, scientists have found.A team of American researchers used piezoelectricity, which is produced from mechanical pressure, to convert...
View ArticleOperation ‘threat’ for women undergoing gynaecological cancer treatment
A FIFTH of women who undergo major surgery for gynaecological cancer face suffering a further complication, researchers have found.They say that 19 per cent of women across the UK who undergo such...
View ArticleNoisy children top list of airline hates
Noisy children are the worst part of flying, according to a poll of aircraft passengers.Unruly youngsters topped the list of pet hates in a survey by travel agent sunshine.co.uk.Next most annoying was...
View ArticleUK’s higher earners have one of world’s biggest tax burdens
HIGHER earners in the UK face one of the highest tax burdens in the world, according to figures from a Scottish accountancy firm.Campbell Dallas LLP said out of 26 countries analysed, the UK had the...
View ArticleUS elections: One final push for swing-state votes
Barack Obama will deliver the final campaign speeches of his political career today with a last-minute pitch to swing-state voters – who will give him four more years in the White House or dispatch him...
View ArticleAnalysis: With all still to play for, there is no rest for ‘door-to-door...
AS THE race for the White House enters its final hours, the race is hanging on a huge door-to-door ground war of competing armies of volunteers desperate to get their voters to the polls. Democrats...
View ArticleHerman van Rompuy profile: Former PM who can calm a crisis
Herman van Rompuy is the first man to hold the post of president of the European Council, which is sometimes referred to as the president of Europe.The position, created in the 2007 Treaty of Lisbon,...
View ArticleProbe into expenses abuse MP backed
Police are right to look again at whether former minister Denis MacShane’s abuse of expenses broke the law, the shadow home secretary said yesterday.Yvette Cooper said the MP’s case should be...
View Article‘Tricking’ genes can boost cancer fight
A BOWEL cancer treatment could be improved as a result of research at a Scottish university.Scientists in Dundee said their work focuses on the behaviour of a gene called K-RAS, which could be...
View ArticleUS elections: Rivals may be neck and neck but both leave voters cold
THE sales of Stetsons have tanked at Rose Mallory’s shop on the country road to Oxford, where Michelle Obama is rousing the Democrat Party faithful in this corner of the “battlefield of...
View ArticleBBC warned it could face a full public inquiry, as Jimmy Savile sex abuse...
THE BBC could face a full public inquiry into the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal if its own investigations fail to “get to the bottom” of the accusations, Culture Secretary Maria Miller has warned.The...
View ArticleGo-alone Scotland won’t get UK’s triple-A credit rating, Scottish Secretary...
AN INDEPENDENT Scotland would have its credit rating downgraded, raising the price of government and personal borrowing, Liberal Democrat Scottish Secretary Michael Moore will today claim in a major...
View ArticleSpotless to expand into north-west of England
A SCOTTISH cleaning company that lists Maclay Murray & Spens, Jones Lang LaSalle and Virgin Money among its clients is to expand into the north-west of England and Yorkshire after selling its...
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