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10/12/2008 19:13

UK Today Editoweb 10 december 2008

PM: Don't Sensationalise Suicide - Benefit reforms 'compassionate': PM - Bank merger challenge move rejected.



PM: Don't Sensationalise Suicide

The controversial issue of broadcasting an assisted suicide must be dealt with "sensitively and without sensationalism", the Prime Minister has said.

Benefit reforms 'compassionate': PM

The Government's new welfare reforms showed "compassion" to benefit claimants, the Prime Minister has insisted after radical plans to get one million people off benefits and into work received a mixed reception.

Bank merger challenge move rejected

A legal challenge against the decision to waive competition law to allow the planned merger of HBOS and Lloyds TSB has been rejected.

Job Fears As Woolies Rescue Fails

Fears are growing for thousands of Woolworths staff after the administrators said they had failed to find a buyer for the troubled high street chain.

Job fear after Woolies sale fails

Fears were growing for thousands of Woolworths jobs after it was reported that administrators had failed to sell the business.

Hong Kong studies effectiveness of vaccine after bird flu outbreak

Hong Kong's government said Wednesday it was looking at whether there was a need to change the vaccine used to protect chickens against avian flu after the latest outbreak at a local poultry farm.

Irish food scare spreads to cattle

Ireland's food scare crisis spread Tuesday as officials said cancer-linked chemicals had been found in cows as well as pigs, but insisted the risk to human health was minimal.

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