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Pensions 'could lose a quarter of value' under Government plans

Minister for Pensions Steve Webb MP addresses the Liberal Democrat Annual Conference, at the ICC in Birmingham. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Tuesday September 20, 2011. See PA LIBDEMS stories. Photo credit should read: Rui Vieira/PA

Workers who change jobs risk losing up to quarter of their pension under new Government plans to let employees carry retirement funds with them, interest groups warn in letter the The Telegraph.

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Armed Forces to wait longer for pension

Aide will quit over extradition, Cameron warned

David Cameron warned that ministerial aide will resign if Government agrees to extradite computer hacker Gary McKinnon to America following decade-long legal campaign.

McKinnon extradition: Cameron and Clegg told to keep promise

Essex fire: father fought hard to save family

Man who lost wife and four children in suspected arson attack 'fought hard to save family in appalling conditions'.

Essex house fire being treated as suspicious

NHS facing breast cancer 'timebomb'

More than a million women will be living with disease within a generation and the NHS is not prepared, campaigners warn.

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Cameron refuses Salmond's debate challenge

David Cameron refused to be drawn into TV debate with Alex Salmond after agreeing to referendum on Scottish independence.

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PM signs 'Edinburgh Agreement'

Savile programme 'inappropriately cancelled'

BBC Newsnight investigation into Jimmy Savile 'inappropriately' cancelled by the broadcaster, says Maria Miller.

Vine: Savile 'one of history's most serious predatory paedophiles'

Britain faces bill over taking back EU powers

Lobbying claims: British Legion President quits

Missing millionaire yachtswoman: wreckage found

MPs' pay could jump to £90,000 a year after Ipsa review

Rolling Stones in London: not-so-cheap seats

Rolling Stones announce first live shows in five years, with front row seats a snip at £1,000 each.

Maggie Smith: more films for grown-ups, please

Hollywood failing to cater for mature audiences, says Dame Maggie Smith at London Film Festival.

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Amateurs identify new planet

Frankie Boyle: 'Vile but not racist'

Cancer patient: surgery against will

Picture that proves Fearless Felix was born to jump

Drawing by five-year-old Felix Baumgartner shows record breaking skydiver drifting down to earth.

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Felix Baumgartner: record jump

Headcam view of record freefall

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Nat Rothschild in shock exit from Bumi board

Financier voiced “regret” in bringing its Indonesia backers to London.

SFO drops investigation into Robert Tchenguiz

Ignominious end for SFO probe into collapse of Icelandic bank Kaupthing.

Starbucks 'paid nothing in UK corporation tax'

Cups are displayed at a Starbucks restaurant in Hong Kong

Coffee chain paid no UK corporation tax last year, despite sales of £398m.

RBS may sue Santander over deal failure

Fears that ditched branch deal could cost RBS up to £1bn.

Paul Krugman attacks 'mad' UK austerity policies

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Hodgson braced for defining showdown

Steven Gerrard and Roy Hodgson - Poland v England: Roy Hodgson braced for defining World Cup showdown

England manager admits that victory is vital against Poland to remain on the road to Rio. Henry Winter reports from Warsaw.

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Gerrard hits back at Vieira claims

Hughes equals Dettori's magnificent seven

Richard Hughes rides into record books at Windsor to equal Frankie Dettori's record of seven victories in one race meeting.

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UCI under attack for taking Armstrong cash

Leading doping official Dr Michael Ashenden criticises former employees UCI for accepting donations from Lance Armstrong.

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Red Bull chief: Sebastian Vettel won't join Ferrari

Kevin Pietersen England 'reintegration' delayed

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Big boys bake too

Rose Prince

Squeezed parents cannot afford childcare

Elizabeth Truss

Europhiles have only themselves to blame

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The young don't know how to meet and greet

Rachel Johnson

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Scottish independence referendum: a timeline: Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, right, and Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond, sign a referendum agreement during a meeting at St Andrews House in Edinburgh

PM signs 'Edinburgh Agreement'

Gary McKinnon’s mother Janis Sharp has attacked a ‘ludicrous’ sentencing disparity between Britain and the US

Family 'shocked' if hacker is extradited

Spectacular images from Felix Baumgartner's headcam show the Austriam daredevil tumbling through the stratosphere during his record-breaking skydive.

Headcam view of record freefall

England manager Roy Hodgson at a press conference ahead of his team's World Cup qualifier against Poland.

Hodgson: Lewandowski is primary threat

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Richard Hamilton's painting Lobby, from the Richard Hamilton - The Late Works exhibition at the National Gallery.

Frieze week, round-up

Alastair Sooke gives his verdict on the exhibitions run to coincide with Frieze, including the National Gallery's Richard Hamilton: The Late Works.

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