Talks over BA cabin crew strike break down

March 11th, 2010

LONDON (Reuters) - Talks between British Airways and labour unions aimed at averting a strike by the airline’s cabin crew have broken down, the Trades Union Congress said on Wednesday.

Insurance Tax Breaks for Self-Employed Individuals (The Tax Guy)

March 11th, 2010

How to claim this otherwise hard-to-get health-care deduction.


Brown says UK to maintain AAA credit rating

March 10th, 2010

LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Wednesday he believed Britain would maintain its coveted top credit rating and announced a pay freeze for top civil servants to help tame a record deficit.

Brown warns of bumpy economic road ahead

March 10th, 2010

LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown sees risks to the economic recovery and says it is not the moment to change course as he prepares for an election by June.

Miliband urges push for Afghan peace deal

March 10th, 2010

LONDON (Reuters) - British Foreign Secretary David Miliband urged Afghans on Wednesday to push energetically for a peace settlement with Taliban insurgents and said Afghanistan’s neighbours must support such an agreement.

Tories say Brown to take UK back to 70s

March 10th, 2010

LONDON (Reuters) - A re-elected Labour government would preside over a backwards-looking Britain saddled with risky debt and 1970s-style trade union domination, the Conservatives will charge on Wednesday.

Belfast votes in favour of police

March 10th, 2010

BELFAST (Reuters) - The Northern Ireland Assembly on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to take control of its own police and justice powers, cementing the latest hard-won agreement between the province’s divided communities.

U.S. kept UK in dark over torture - ex spy chief

March 10th, 2010

LONDON (Reuters) - The United States deliberately kept Britain in the dark about the harsh methods it used when interrogating suspected terrorists, the former head of domestic spy agency MI5 said on Tuesday.

British man guilty of pyramid scheme

March 10th, 2010

LONDON (Reuters) - A British court on Tuesday found a man guilty of defrauding thousands of investors out of 34 million pounds through a series of pyramid scams.

Tories says Brown to take UK back to 70s

March 10th, 2010

LONDON (Reuters) - A re-elected Labour government would preside over a backwards-looking Britain saddled with risky debt and 1970s-style trade union domination, the Conservatives will charge on Wednesday.