The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), which is 84% owned by the state, has announced that it will be cutting 3,500 people from its payroll in the UK.
News
Energy suppliers face Ofgem probe
The Office of Gas and Electricity Marketing (Ofgem) has started an investigation into four of the ‘big six’*** UK energy suppliers over concerns of the mis-selling of power contracts.
Business & Finance
Kabul Bank taken over by Afghan authorities
Kabul Bank, a financial institution part owned by President Hamid Karzai’s brother, has been taken control of by the Central Bank of Afghanistan.
Politics
To share or not to share
It can only be described as farcical. Like something out of the SitCom ‘Yes Prime Minister’ it has been mooted that the UK and France are on the verge of declaring that they will share their aircraft carriers.
Science, Technology & Environment
The cruel exploitation of Tom and Misha
As I get older and possibly more mellowed, fewer things upset me. But the torture of two dolphins exposed by Donal McIntyre in the Express almost made me explode with rage.
Man’s inhumanity to man is well documented and expected. But man’s
Greenland ice melts at record pace
In what he calls ‘a manifestation of warming’, Dr Richard Bates who helps monitor the Greenland ice said he was ‘amazed’ to see such a huge area of ice break off the Petermann glacier.
House Prices
The housing market crystal ball
Over the course of the last few days we have been warned of the calamity to come because of the number of first time buyers into the UK housing market is fast drying up.
Tripe & What Not
Hugh Jackman helps send a message of love
Actor Hugh Jackman and New Zealand Prime Minister Jon Key have both starred in a video message from a cancer patient to his wife to say happy birthday and thank her for the support she has given him.
Kerry Katona amazes the world by wearing denim shorts
Kerry Katona has been spotted leaving a beauty salon wearing coordinated denim shorts and a pale green top proving that she has put her fashion disasters behind her and revealing her new slimline figure that she has worked hard to achieve since her divorce.
Katie Price 13 year old boy ’sex message’ at book signing scandal
According to reports in the gutter press, Katie Price aka Jordan may have signed a copy of her literary masterpiece for a 13 year old boy with a message that may have sexual overtones.
X Factor thick people trash Simon Cowell’s home.
X Factor contestants have run riot in Simon Cowell’s Spanish Villa after getting rather drunk and unruly. The luxury Marbella pad costs £15,000 a night to rent and the X Factor hopefuls
Michelle Bass shows off her fake assets in Big Brother house
The new addition to the Big Brother house is a former Big Brother contestant who simply cannot wait to show that which God did not give her.
Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow single is a shame
Maybe expectations were a bit too high for this song which, at the end of the day, is nothing more than a publicity stunt / message to tell the world that they have kissed and made up.
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