West Ham Among First To Net .London Domain

Premier League football club West Ham has become one of the first businesses to sign up for a .london domain name. Department store Selfridges, the London Eye, the Meantime brewery and the London School of Economics have also signed up for the localised...

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Starbucks Moves EU HQ To London After Tax Row

Starbucks is to base its European headquarters in Britain, amid the ongoing row over multinationals' corporate tax structures. The coffee company is to shift its base from Amsterdam to London before the end of 2014. The UK is its largest European market,...

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Pensioners To Get Government Death Estimates

By Anushka Asthana, Political Correspondent People approaching retirement will be given an estimate of when they might die, ministers have revealed. A measure of life expectancy, linked to factors such as smoking, eating habits or socioeconomic...

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Imperial Tobacco To Close Nottingham Factory

Up to 900 jobs are to be lost under plans by Imperial Tobacco to close factories in Nottingham and Nantes in France. The company said it wanted to shut both its production plant and distribution centre in Nottingham, which together employ around 540...

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Google Buys Drone Maker Titan Aerospace

By Joe Tidy, Sky News Reporter Google has purchased high-altitude solar-powered drone builder Titan Aerospace as part of the search engine giant's efforts to bring internet access to remote areas of the world. Google snapped up the New Mexico company...

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Scotland Split Would Risk Jobs, Warns Hammond

Defence Secretary Philip Hammond has warned thousands of jobs will be threatened if Scotland decides to break away from the UK. He told staff at a Glasgow-based defence firm the future of the business and their livelihoods would be put at risk by a...

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Official: Average Earnings Outpace Inflation

Average UK earnings increased by 1.7% in the year to February, above the inflation rate of 1.6%, according to official figures. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said it was the first time since spring 2010 that the consumer price index for inflation...

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Mt Gox Bitcoin Exchange Heads For Liquidation

Troubled bitcoin exchange Mt Gox is due to be liquidated after a Japanese court rejected a bailout plan. The company was once the world's biggest exchange for the cyber currency. A court-appointed administrator confirmed the rejection and said CEO...

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Drug Charges For Former Co-op Boss Flowers

Former Co-op Bank boss Paul Flowers has been charged with two counts of possession of a class A drug and one of a class C drug. The former Methodist minister was arrested in Liverpool by West Yorkshire Police officers last year. A police spokesman...

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Tesco Full-Year Profit Slumps 6% To £3.3bn

Tesco has reported a 6% fall in full-year group trading profit of £3.3bn. Stripping out exceptional items incurred in the last year, pre-tax profit was down 6.9% to £3.1bn. The UK's biggest supermarket chain also announced like-for-like sales, excluding...

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