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Follow our rolling coverage today as leaders gather in Brussels to try and hammer out a rescue package for the eurozone. Germany is voting to increase the size of the bailout fund before the summit begins this afternoon. Angela Merkel has raised stakes by warning that peace in Europe cannot be taken for granted
The Business Secretary, Vince Cable, admitted today that it was a “bit embarrassing” that his failure to pay on time a VAT bill of up to £25,000 “wasn’t spotted earlier”. The “oversight”, he said, had happened in good faith and would not stop him continuing to speak out on the issue of tax avoidance. Dr Cable’s bill followed a surge in lucrative media work in the two years before he became a minister in the coalition Government in 2010. He earned an estimated £192,000 on top of his MP’s annual salary of £65,738. But he did not tell Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs (HMRC) that his income had exceeded the threshold for VAT registration – an omission for which the Revenue fined him £500, half the maximum penalty. If a person’s turnover of VAT-liable goods and services over a 12-month period exceeds the current threshold of £73,000, he or she must
The Ministry of Defence has clawed back £433 paid to a soldier who was killed in Afghanistan because he died ten days before the end of a month for which he had already been paid. “When I read the letter it felt like I’d been poked in the eye with a sharp stick,” said Tony Bancroft, the father of Lance Corporal Jordan Bancroft, 25, of the 1st Battalion The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment. Lance Corporal Bancroft, from Earby, near Burnley, was shot dead on August 2010 as his platoon exchanged fire with insurgents while providing security for a meeting between Nato forces and village elders. He had joined the army in 2001 and had already served two operational tours in Iraq when he was deployed to Helmand Province. The MoD’s letter to his parents, sent on October 14, explained that he had been paid in advance for the month, but because he died on August 21
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However idealistic, the St Paul’s protesters are acting without consideration for others and should depart
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The last Polish airman who fought in the Battle of Britain has passed away
The population of the UK is projected to hit 70 million by 2027, according to figures published by the Office for National Statistics
National breast cancer screening programme is being reviewed after concerns that thousands of women every year are wrongly told they have cancer
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Rolling coverage from our Business and Foreign staff based around the world of the market turmoil and the latest on the debt crisis
At Tokyo’s Narita airport this morning excitement built around flight NH7871, the first ever commercial flight of Boeing’s 787 ‘Dreamliner’
Our Football Correspondent fields your opinions and questions on this week’s big talking points
England captain to be considered innocent until proven guilty if issue not resolved before next month’s friendlies against Spain and Sweden
England scrum half could miss the Six Nations after scans reveal damage to knee ligaments sustained when playing for Saracens on Sunday
The secret negotiations paved the way for the announcement by the Basque separatists last week that will end their armed struggle
Britain’s £500m of aid since the 1994 genocide has led to a peaceful country but the regime in Kigale is accused of repression
Police in Texas are hunting a serial rapist who appears to be targeting women who are members of the largest US black sorority
Frontrunner Sean Gallagher was ambushed on a televised debate by his rival, the former IRA commander Martin McGuinness.
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