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The great university clearance sale

Richard Garner and Oliver Wright: Tuition fee bargains await students who seek last-minute places, says minister.

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King set to see term of office end with inflation still above target

Thursday, 12 May 2011

Sean O'Grady: British consumers face another two years of high inflation, weaker economic growth and a continuing struggle to maintain living standards, according to the Bank of England.

Battle for Libya shifts in desert sands as Gaddafi loyalists target oilfields

Thursday, 12 May 2011

Daniel Howden sees the regime turn to guerrilla warfare in Jalo.

Channel 4 courts controversy in broadcast of Class A drug use

Thursday, 12 May 2011

Richard Hall: Drugs Live will show participants taking ecstasy under clinical conditions, so viewers are able to see how they affect the body.

Coalition 'is weakening effective government'

Thursday, 12 May 2011

Andrew Grice: Voters think it has made government weaker, less decisive, less responsive and more confused.

Lies, damned lies and new media: is online gossip out of control?

Thursday, 12 May 2011

Ian Burrell: Concern is growing about defamation on Twitter and the internet.

Court gives Barry George hope of compensation

Thursday, 12 May 2011

Andy McSmith: Two Irish Republicans have been told by the Supreme Court that they are entitled to compensation for years they spent in prison after being wrongly convicted of murder.

Wes Morgan: Carring the weight of Forest fans' hopes

Thursday, 12 May 2011

The popular centre-back has experienced play-off pain as a fan and a player but remains optimistic this time, he tells Jon Culley.

Thus spoke Lagerfeld: Design guru goes back to Nietzsche

Thursday, 12 May 2011

Chanel's creative director is launching a radical publishing project. Tom Peck on the couturier and the philosopher's tomes.

David Prosser: Lessons for Britain from the Galleon insider trading scandal

Thursday, 12 May 2011

Outlook It took the jury three weeks, but in the end, the Feds got their man. And in securing a guilty verdict on each count levelled against the hedge fund boss Raj Rajaratnam, the US District Attorney Preet Bharara has sent a powerful message to Wall Street. Despite their protests that the line has become blurred, financiers should be perfectly capable of distinguishing between investment research (legal) and privileged information (illegal). Those who cross the line should expect to find investigators emboldened by this verdict.

Gulliver moves HSBC away from 'world's local bank' tag in review

Thursday, 12 May 2011

HSBC's new chief executive yesterday rejected its long-standing claim to be "the world's local bank" as he announced up to $3.5bn (£2.1bn) of cost cuts and a review of retail banking in almost half its markets.

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