Labour and Tory loans total Â£62m
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Labour and the Conservatives owe more than Â£62m in loans, new figures from the Electoral Commission reveal.
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The Northern Ireland Executive aims to create 6,500 jobs in its programme for government.
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Cabinet member Peter Hain welcomes donations to the Labour Party from financiers, despite union anger.
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After making record profits, Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs Group reported that it will pay its workers an average of $622,000 this year.
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Scotland's schools and colleges spent more than Â£250,000 on compensation to teachers last year.
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Labour is extracting Â£2m a year from local councillors' publicly-funded expenses, a newspaper claims.
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The British economy has grown by 2.7 percent in 2006, in line with an initial estimate given last month.
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Media & professional: Â· Threshold for full grant moved up to Â£25,000  Â· Student loan 'repayment holidays' proposed
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Barclays says a technical problem forced it to borrow Â£1.6bn from the Bank of England.
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PM tours worst-hit areas and pledges Â£14m to help with clean-up, but unions warn of spending cuts.
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Hull is to receive Â£2.1m to help it recover from last month's floods - the biggest share of government aid.
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Another 250,000 homes are needed on top of Labour's target, advisers have told the housing minister.
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Cost to British taxpayer of investigating claims that Diana, Princess of Wales, was murdered have reached an estimated Â£6m
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Anyone who has been jobless for two years will be required to undertake a year-long programme of community work if they want to receive benefit payments, David Cameron will announce today, as the Tories move to establish a clear divide between them and Labour over welfare reform
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Sickness absence in the NI Civil Service is on the increase, and has cost  Â£25.6m this year.
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Some 6,600 illegal immigrants licensed to work in security industry home secretary admits in Commons
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Business & money: An emergency loan of Â£1.6bn and speculation about the sub-prime fallout have rocked the bank.