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Child services face tougher reviews
5:22pm Tuesday 2nd December 2008
Tougher inspection regimes for child protection services across the country have been introduced to avoid a repeat of failings exposed by the Baby P tragedy.
More sales aim to attract shoppers
5:22pm Tuesday 2nd December 2008
Department store Debenhams is to hold a second price cutting campaign this week amid speculation of a fresh round of sales on the high street.
Government pay dispute resolved
5:22pm Tuesday 2nd December 2008
A long running pay dispute between the Government and civil servants, which threatened to spark a winter of discontent, has been resolved.
Brits still stranded in Thai chaos
5:22pm Tuesday 2nd December 2008
The crisis in Thailand appears to be nearing an end but thousands of stranded British travellers are still struggling to leave the strife-torn country.
Retailer set to axe 800 workers
5:22pm Tuesday 2nd December 2008
Britain's retail sector has been dealt a major blow as another high street company went into administration with the loss of more than 800 jobs.
Driver pays parking fine in pennies
5:22pm Tuesday 2nd December 2008
A carer who was slapped with an £80 parking fine by her council, despite winning an appeal to drop the charge, has presented her fee to officials in a wheelbarrow full of pennies in protest at the penalty.
BA in merger talks with Qantas
5:22pm Tuesday 2nd December 2008
British Airways has revealed it is in talks over a potential merger with Australian rival Qantas.
Top officer probes Home Office leak
5:22pm Tuesday 2nd December 2008
A senior police officer has been appointed by Acting Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson to review the handling of the police inquiry into Home Office leaks.
Menezes: Unlawful killing ruled out
5:22pm Tuesday 2nd December 2008
The coroner at the inquest of Jean Charles de Menezes has ruled out a verdict of unlawful killing.
'Evil' Tobin handed life for murder
5:22pm Tuesday 2nd December 2008
Convicted sex killer Peter Tobin has been jailed for a minimum of 30 years for the "barbaric" murder of schoolgirl Vicky Hamilton.
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Walthamstow’s photographic society, founded in 1894, isn’t just one of the oldest in the country, it’s also one of the most successful. Its free annual exhibition is on this week at St Mary's Welcome Centre in Walthamstow village: weekday evenings and all day Saturday 1 November.
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