The Milburn review presents itself as a plan to help young people into work, but Dr DYLAN MURPHY argues it is laying the groundwork for a harsher benefits regime
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Campaigners from across the continent will gather in Brussels on June 14 to oppose Europe’s accelerating militarisation and cuts to public services, write MAGGIE SIMPSON and BOB ORAM of No Cold War Britain
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May 9 2013 will stay long in the memory for many co-operators.
It was the day of reckoning for the Co-operative Bank. It was the day the great unravelling began, the day credit ratings agency Moody’s downgraded the bank’s debt rating to “junk” status.
It said that the bank was vulnerable to potential losses and warned that it may need “external support” if it could not strengthen its balance sheet.
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