DAILY POST YOUR VOICE IN WALES: pounds 100-a-day to 'repair' the...

Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  November 27, 2008 ;     344 words ......of repairs to the still-almost-brand-new pounds 67m Senedd building. The answer is close-on pounds 100,000 since March 2006, which might strike...snagged the building at their own cost. The pounds 98-odd thousand born by the taxpayer is apparently...

US downturn bill topping pounds 7trillion; In association with...

The Birmingham Post (England);  November 27, 2008 ;     305 words ......financial crisis now approach EUR7trillion (pounds 4.5trillion). The announcement this week of a new EUR800billion (pounds 519billion) plan is the latest in a list...package to provide up to EUR200 billion (pounds 130billion) in loans to banks and investment...

Families spent only pounds 8 a week on booze in pubs and bars;...

The Birmingham Post (England);  November 27, 2008 ;     314 words ......4 per cent of household expenditure of pounds 459.20 per week, the Office for National...transport, including fuel and servicing, cost pounds 28.80 per week, 47 per cent of spending...rail and tube fares rose to an average pounds 2.50 a week and bus and coach tickets...

pounds 200 tax handout ...oh thank you Darling; EXCLUSIVE Christmas gift...

The People (London, England);  November 23, 2008 ;     335 words ......MORE than 22million struggling taxpayers will get a pounds 200 Christmas present from Chancellor Alistair Darling...He plans to raise personal tax-free allowances by pounds 600 to pounds 6,635 so everyone who is paid up to pounds 34,800 a...

Return of the [pounds]100,000 London home ; Properties are sold for...

Evening Standard - London;  December 2, 2008 ;     524 words ...LONDON is seeing the return of the [pounds]100,000 home as property values plunge...auction last week 18 lots changed hands for [pounds]100,000 or less an extraordinary total...analyst said: "If you saved a deposit of [pounds]25,000, which is not unrealistic for a...

the Pounds 20bn tax giveaway Chancellor unveils package of tax cuts and...

Belfast Telegraph;  November 25, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Chancellor Alistair Darling yesterday announced a Pounds 20bn package of tax cuts and spending designed...increased the income tax personal allowance of Pounds 120 a year for basic rate taxpayers, increasing to Pounds 145 in April, helping 22 million basic rate...

the Pounds 20bn tax giveaway ; Chancellor unveils package of tax cuts and...

Belfast Telegraph;  November 25, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Chancellor Alistair Darling yesterday announced a Pounds 20bn package of tax cuts and spending designed...increased the income tax personal allowance of Pounds 120 a year for basic rate taxpayers, increasing to Pounds 145 in April, helping 22 million basic rate...

[pounds]28 million: the annual payout to our councillors ; Some town hall...

Evening Standard - London;  December 2, 2008 ;     468 words ...COUNCILLORS in London are taking home [pounds]28 million a year in pay and allowances...awarded themselves incomes of more than [pounds]70,000 a year, according to a Standard...showed councillors claimed a total of [pounds]27,996,476, including [pounds]1,562,860...

Charity sale raises pounds 142,500.(Sports)

The Racing Post (London, England);  December 1, 2008 ;     274 words ......have benefited to the tune of more than pounds 2 million through the fund-raising efforts...had their coffers boosted by a further pounds 142,500 courtesy of the auction staged...Oaksey Bronze by Willie Newton JP McManus - pounds 11,000; 2 Luxury day out at 2009 Stan...

HOUSE PRICES DROP [pounds]100,000 IN TWO WEEKS ; Sellers forced to face...

Evening Standard - London;  November 26, 2008 ;     474 words ......London homes are being slashed by up to [pounds]100,000 to secure sales in the run-up...expensive boroughs averaging more than [pounds]100,000. Sellers in Westminster who have...price have knocked off an average of [pounds]108,166, while those in neighbouring Kensington...

Whitehall 'wasted' pounds 200m on IT projects.(News)

The Journal (Newcastle, England);  November 24, 2008 ;     215 words ...GOVERNMENT departments have wasted more than pounds 200m on IT projects that were later abandoned...Work and Pensions (DWP) alone has spent pounds 156m on aborted programmes, official figures show. That included pounds 143m invested in a benefits processing...

pounds 7m pours into Labour from celebs; DONATIONS.(News)

The Mirror (London, England);  November 27, 2008 ;     113 words ......left the Conservatives trailing. The party received more than pounds 7.25million in donations between July and September - pounds 3.5million more than the Tories. They included pounds 1million from JK Rowling, pounds 25,000 from Sven-Goran Eriksson...

Taxpayers take stake as pounds 15bn offer is snubbed.(Business)

Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England);  November 28, 2008 ;     325 words ......of Scotland after investors snubbed its pounds 15 billion share offer, the bank said...taxpayers with a paper loss of almost pounds 2.5 billion. RBS said just 0.24% of the...bill for the remainder. Alongside this pounds 15 billion outlay, the Treasury is pumping...

NO-FRILLS AIRLINE CONNECTS UK TO ASIA FOR LESS THAN 100 POUNDS

The Hindustan Times;  November 26, 2008 ;     219 words ......be able to fly to Asia for under 100 pounds on a new no-frills service from London...cent of the seats will be priced at 99 pounds, according to the airline, with the average fare expected to be 150 pounds, well below a typical rival fare of...

Donations of pounds 550k for Plaid; WALES.(News)

Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  November 27, 2008 ;     142 words ......Cymru declared political donations worth more than pounds 550,000 in the last financial quarter. Four main donations in the form of bequests varied from pounds 5,000 to pounds 426,000. London-based Welshman Howel Vaughan Lewis...