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“The price NatWest is offering L&G is a very full one,” said Mr Rayner. “If a rival bid came in, I’m not sure they could go much higher.”The boards of NatWest and L&G each met over the weekend to review the proposed link-up. Smoke signals coming out of both camps suggested an announcement could come [...]

Yet MEPs cannot vote to veto individual candidates and the hearings have not delivered consistent results. Even MEPs agree that the committees have been crowded, with rambling, poorly co-ordinated and politically partisan questioning.Alan Donnelly, the leader of Labour’s 30 MEPs, argued: “In one hearing there were 70 to 80 MEPs who could have asked a [...]

Elizabeth Dole speaks of being “reborn” and “turning to God”. And for the Democrats, Vice-President Al Gore has made several appearances before religious groups, describing himself as a “person of strong faith”.Just as striking – and distressing for the religious right – is that all three candidates couple their professions of faith with hedging on [...]

The result is a polarisation of the high street, between discounters like Matalan and New Look and the more expensive groups. PEACOCKS, THE high street discount retailer, has timed its flotation well. And in August, it picked up a minority stake in Lynx Photonics Networks, an Israeli start-up that was pushing light-based Internet-related technologies.”It is [...]

Mr Arnold, an architect who is nuts about bunkers, has worked hard with his non-profit association, Berlin Underworld, to restore two shelters at Gesundbrunnen.He is regarded as one of the city’s foremost authorities on the subject. He has researched wartime archives kept in Moscow and written a book mapping the tunnels the Nazis, and subsequently [...]

If there is one thing every person in a township has in common, it is hunger for learning.”
Several hundred peoplecome regularly to the school for the British-funded classes in everything from basic literacy skills to business practice. Skeen, in common with most township schools, has no glass in its windows, no chalk for the blackboards [...]