Reading: UK's epicentre of va-va-voom
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Clinches 'top performing city' title It's official: Reading is the UK's "top performing" city based on "employment, population growth and skills", closely followed by Bristol, Southampton, Cambridge and York.â¦
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The population of the UK will increase by 4.4 million over the next nine years, according to new estimates.
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By NO BYLINE  Some of our favourite things on the world wide web at the moment...   WHEN KILLER PLANTS RULED BRITAINwww.youtube.com/watch?vPART two in an occasional "when they made proper scary telly" nostalgia series: Day of the Triffids.
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It has never been more difficult for a British act to break through internationally.
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First, London. Then, Scotland. Is there a concerted conspiracy going on  -  and who might be involved?
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The number of people living beyond 100 years has reached a record high in England and Wales, official figures show.
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The UK's current account deficit, a key economic indicator, widens to a record level, official data shows.
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Comment is free: Stephen Armstrong: It's easy to take a pop at the man from Harrods, yet he is practically a British national treasure
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Almost 55,000 people who shaped British society are profiled in a new 60-volume book that has taken 12 years to write.
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Comment is free: Oliver James: The growth in relative materialism over the past 20 years is taking a heavy toll on the wellbeing of English-speaking nations
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London is to become the national centre for reporting on social and economic conditions in the United Kingdom and on the UK - s position in the world.
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Common sense, Ã¦sthetics, and national character have prevailed; the forces of high modernism and weenie rationalism have received a setback.  The European Union has chosen to no longer pressure people in the British Isles to convert exclusively to the metric system.
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The key points from prime minister's questions in the House of Commons.
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The full text of David Blunkett's resignation statement
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â¢ Ice cap collapsing at unprecedented rate â¢ Area almost twice size of UK gone in last week alone
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But web freeloaders fill their boots A survey into the newspaper reading habits of the British has some rare good news for newspapers - and a warning for their net strategies.â¦
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We beat China though! Go team! Former world power and current CCTV capital of the universe the UK has been fingered as the worst place in Europe if you fancy a little bit of privacy.â¦