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From COMPANIES 12:20pm

RBS seeks more time for branch disposals

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Shares fall after state-controlled bank reveals £5.17bn loss

UK BUSINESS 11:41am

Bank bonuses fall less than expected

Survey shows 2% drop in financial services industry

In depth Bank bonuses
Lex ‘Dear Star Banker...’

UK POLITICS & POLICY 11:30am

UK ‘bringing immigration under control’

Tories boosted by sharp fall in number of international students

Cameron raises immigration stakes
Editorial Balkan migrants

UK POLITICS & POLICY 3:14pm

Number of young ‘Neets’ falls

Most marked decline was among 16 to 18-year-olds

UK BUSINESS 12:59pm

UK internet use doubles in six years

More than two-thirds of adults go online every day

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The lesson from Marissa Mayer’s whip-cracking at Yahoo is that this is an age of harder work

UK POLITICS & POLICY 9:23am

Town halls defy Pickles over council tax

More than four out of 10 local authorities raise tax

From COMPANIES 12:03am

UK high street closures accelerating

Britain’s retail casualties up 10-fold in 2012

From COMPANIES 10:11pm

Giant’s Causeway golf project wins green light

A £100m resort will be built next to Northern Ireland’s only Unesco site

Businesses count the cost
Editorial Peace in Northern Ireland

From COMPANIES 9:16am

Reed Elsevier plans further £300m buyback

Publisher continues to sell advertising-reliant businesses

UK BUSINESS 8:31pm

Capital road eased for new banks

Regulators push to boost competition in high street banking

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James Mackintosh examines the prospects for more of a bounce in sterling

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Ed Hammond talks about alternatives to bank funding for big infrastructure projects

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©Bloomberg Last year was the worst for housebuilding starts since 2009, which was itself pretty awful

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©Bloomberg Proliferation of mobile devices is leading banks to develop new business models

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The fact that the English are champion invaders appears to drive their new history curriculum

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