Lords urge VAT reform

10:25am Wednesday 20th August 2008

VAT rates should be reformed to make sustainable consumer goods "more economically attractive" as part of a bid to end the UK's throwaway culture, a Lords committee has suggested.

'Postcode lottery' of GCSE results

10:25am Wednesday 20th August 2008

England's poorest students' chances of GCSE success are a "postcode lottery", it has been claimed.

Juices 'could render drugs useless'

10:25am Wednesday 20th August 2008

Fruit juices including grapefruit, orange and apple can dramatically reduce the effectiveness of heart and cancer drugs, it was claimed.

Miliband holds Georgia crisis talks

10:25am Wednesday 20th August 2008

Foreign Secretary David Miliband visited Georgia as Nato stepped up pressure on Russia to withdraw its forces from the former Soviet state.

Bank committee split over rate rise

10:25am Wednesday 20th August 2008

An interest rate increase was ruled out this month because of the risk that it might make the economic downturn "unnecessarily deep", the Bank of England revealed.

Brown praises Olympic heroes

10:25am Wednesday 20th August 2008

Gordon Brown has lavished praise on the UK's Olympic athletes as Team GB celebrated further gold medal success.

Glitter refuses to board UK flight

10:25am Wednesday 20th August 2008

Shamed rock star Gary Glitter has been left in limbo after refusing to board a flight to the UK following his release from a Vietnamese prison.

Tory pledge to build fairer society

10:25am Wednesday 20th August 2008

The Tories are now the right party to create a fairer society because the Government has failed to raise the incomes, aspirations and opportunities of Britain's poorest people, George Osborne said.

Watchdog tells BAA to sell airports

10:25am Wednesday 20th August 2008

Competition chiefs have signalled the break-up of BAA's UK airport empire by proposing the company cease running two of its three London airports - Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted.

Paedophiles face tighter controls

10:25am Wednesday 20th August 2008

Measures to tighten controls on the movements of paedophiles have been announced by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith.

Lords urge VAT reform

Updated 10:25am Wednesday 20th August 2008

VAT rates should be reformed to make sustainable consumer goods "more economically attractive" as part of a bid to end the UK's throwaway culture, a Lords committee has suggested.

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