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Lloyds to rescue debt-laden Admiral

Source: The Independent

Irvine :: United Kingdom | updated Mon Nov 16 17:40:27 -0800 2009 | business-news

Admiral Taverns has confirmed that Lloyds Banking Group is working on a financial restructuring of the struggling pubs group that is thought to involve a £600m debt-for-equity swap. The deal means Lloyds will in effect take control of Admiral, which...

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Beyond analysis: Inside the minds of the world's top psychologists

Source: The independent

Irvine :: United Kingdom | updated Sun Oct 04 16:18:54 -0700 2009 | technology-news

Some theorists believe self-control is a general trait...I have weighed 95kg for the last 20 years, and I have dieted a dozen times, only to return to 95kg...Hardly. Eighteen months ago I took up walking, knowing 10,000 steps per day...

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The unrivalled Diana Athill

Source: The Guardian

Irvine :: United Kingdom | updated Fri Oct 30 17:38:54 -0700 2009 | entertainment-news

In the early 1980s, the publisher André Deutsch had an idea for a book I could write about the partition of India. I didn't take it up, which I regret now because I was wrong to imagine, as I told...

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Briefing board

Source: The Scotsman

Irvine :: United Kingdom | updated Wed Nov 18 20:24:55 -0800 2009 | political-news

The briefing, produced by Professor Christopher Hood, Dr Ruth Dixon and Dr Deborah Wilson, suggests, as public sector budgets are squeezed, money should be used to provide services, with less focus on "user satisfaction measures"...The briefing also points out that,...

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Irvine breaks silence over Blair

Source: BBC

Irvine :: United Kingdom | updated Sun Nov 01 08:19:44 -0800 2009 | political-news

Lord Irvine says he warned Mr Blair that the plans to axe the post of Lord Chancellor in 2003 were "incoherent". And he warned Mr Blair he should have consulted him, the judiciary, the House of Lords and the Queen...

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